Action on Smoking and Health
(asked on 4th November 2014) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what plans they have to review the funding they provide to Action on Smoking and Health.
The Department holds regular meetings with ASH to monitor delivery according to the terms of the grant awarded under Section 64 of the Health and Social Care Act.
Ministers and officials meet a range of organisations on a regular basis to discuss tobacco control. Identifying the notes taken at these meetings would involve a disproportionate cost.
Details of Ministerial meetings with external stakeholders are published quarterly in arrears on the Gov.UK website at:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/ministerial-gifts-hospitality-travel-and-external-meetings-2014
Details of the amounts awarded to ASH under Section 64 of the Health and Social Care Act are below:
Year | Project name | Award |
2010-11 | Capitalising on Smokefree: the way forward. | £220,000 |
2011-12 | Supporting the Tobacco Plan for England 2011-2012 | £150,000 |
2012-13 | Supporting the Tobacco Plan for England 2012-2013 | £150,000 |
2013-14 | Supporting the Tobacco Plan for England 2013-2014 | £175,000 |
2014-15 | Supporting the Tobacco Plan for England 2014-2015 | £200,000* |
*Awarded but not yet paid.
ASH has not received any funding from Public Health England.
The applications for grants provided under Section 64 of the Health and Social Care Act are considered individually on their own merit. Any grants awarded are monitored according to the objectives set out in the grant award letter in line with terms and conditions set out in the Act. ASH provides the Department with an end of grant report for each grant.