{"value":{"id":644342,"askingMemberId":1565,"askingMember":null,"house":"Commons","memberHasInterest":false,"dateTabled":"2016-11-25T00:00:00","dateForAnswer":"2016-11-29T00:00:00","uin":"54977","questionText":"To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much funding on tobacco control has been provided by his Department to (a) international governmental organisations and agencies and (b) international non-governmental organisations and agencies in each of the last five years; and if he will provide a list of those such organisations and agencies.","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":"<p>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.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Financial Year</p></td><td><p>Tobacco control programme budget spend</p></td><td><p>Funding for World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control secretariat</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011/12</p></td><td><p>£550,500</p></td><td><p>Nil</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td><p>£949,000</p></td><td><p>£550,000*</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>£920,000</p></td><td><p>£182,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td><p>£1,003,000</p></td><td><p>£275,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015/16</p></td><td><p>£1,133,000</p></td><td><p>£206,760</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>* initially a biennial payment</p><p> </p><p>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.</p>","originalAnswerText":"","comparableAnswerText":"","dateAnswerCorrected":null,"dateHoldingAnswer":null,"attachmentCount":0,"heading":"Tobacco: Health Education","attachments":[],"groupedQuestionsDates":[]},"links":[{"rel":"self","href":"/Questions/644342","method":"GET"}]}