Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what meetings they have had since January 2013 in respect of the proposal for the introduction of standardised packaging of tobacco; and, for each meeting, what were the dates and the names of individuals present including the names of any external organisations.

Ministers and officials meet a range of organisations and stakeholders on a regular basis to discuss tobacco control. The Department does not keep a central diary of the engagements that every departmental official has had.

Details of Ministerial meetings with external stakeholders are published quarterly in arrears on the Gov.UK website. A copy of these has already been placed in the Library.