Lord Palmer – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Palmer on 2014-05-07.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they will place in the Library of the House all risk assessments into standardised tobacco packaging undertaken by HM Revenue and Customs.

Earl Howe

The Government continues carefully to consider all issues relevant to the introduction of standardised packaging of tobacco products.

The Government will be holding a final, short consultation including draft regulations in which Ministers will ask, in particular, for views on anything new since the last full public consultation that is relevant to the development of this policy.

A further, developed consultation stage Impact Assessment (IA) will be published alongside the upcoming public consultation. Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs has contributed to the revised IA.

The Department of Health will continue to work with other government departments on the development of proposals for standardised packaging of tobacco products.