Part of the debate – in the House of Lords at 3:26 pm on 23 November 2022.
Lord Markham
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Health and Social Care
3:26,
23 November 2022
There are a number of ways we can tackle this, price, obviously, being one of the main ways, along with taxation. The noble Lord will be aware that we increase the tax by 2% every year, and cigarettes prices here are now the highest in Europe. We are still providing funding of £73 million per year to help 100,000 people stop smoking. But it is not always money that counts. Anti-smoking campaigns, branding restrictions and taxation are all other elements which are proving successful.