Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to ban e-smoking from all hospital grounds.

The Government has no plans to introduce legislative proposals to ban e-cigarettes on hospital grounds.

The Government believes in the proportionate regulation of e-cigarettes, recognising that they are not risk-free. Through the Tobacco and Related Products Regulations 2016, we have introduced measures to regulate e-cigarettes which reduce the risk of harm to children, protect against the risk of renormalisation of tobacco use, provide assurance on relative safety for users, and give businesses legal certainty.

Public Health England has published advice to help employers to introduce policies around the use of e-cigarettes in public places and workplaces.