Department of Health and Social Care written question – answered at on 4 July 2023.
Alberto Costa
Conservative, South Leicestershire
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of his Department's progress towards achieving his Smokefree 2030 targets.
Neil O'Brien
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Health and Social Care
In April, we announced a range of measures to help more people in England quit smoking. These include a new national swap to stop scheme to provide vapes to one million smokers, and a financial incentives scheme to help all pregnant smokers to quit. We are confident that these new measures, in addition to the actions we are already taking, will set us on course to achieve our Smokefree 2030 ambition, and we will monitor progress.
Yes1 person thinks so
No2 people think not
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