{"value":{"id":644339,"askingMemberId":1565,"askingMember":null,"house":"Commons","memberHasInterest":false,"dateTabled":"2016-11-25T00:00:00","dateForAnswer":"2016-11-29T00:00:00","uin":"54978","questionText":"To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the annual budget for tobacco control was in each of the last five years; and how much of that budget was spent (a) internally within his Department, (b) on UK activities or grants and (c) on international activities or grants.","answeringBodyId":17,"answeringBodyName":"Department of Health","isWithdrawn":false,"isNamedDay":false,"groupedQuestions":[],"answerIsHolding":false,"answerIsCorrection":false,"answeringMemberId":4019,"answeringMember":null,"correctingMemberId":null,"correctingMember":null,"dateAnswered":"2016-12-05T00:00:00","answerText":"

The following table gives the Departmental tobacco control programme budget annual spend for 2011/12 to 2015/16 and the amount of that spend that was paid to international organisations. The rest of the spend was related to United Kingdom activities. Information on the tobacco control team’s administrative costs could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.

Financial Year

Tobacco control programme budget spend

Funding for World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control secretariat

2011/12

£550,500

Nil

2012/13

£949,000

£550,000*

2013/14

£920,000

£182,000

2014/15

£1,003,000

£275,000

2015/16

£1,133,000

£206,760

* initially a biennial payment

In addition, since 2013, the Department has funded local authority expenditure on tobacco control through the public health grant. Local authority public health spend on smoking and tobacco was £147 million in 2013/14, £134 million in 2014/15 and £94 million in 2015/16.

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