To ask the Secretary of State for Health what funding his Department has provided towards national tobacco strategies in each of the last five years. [Official Report, 25 January 2008; Vol. 470, c. 18MC.] (166697)

The Department has provided the following funding to support the Government’s national tobacco strategies set out as follows:

The following table shows advertising expenditure on the dangers of smoking from 2003-04 to date.

The Department awarded a grant of £2,670,000 to Cancer Research UK (CRUK) under section 64 of the Health Services and Public Health Act 1968 to fund the charity’s Light and Mild campaign in 2003-04. A further grant of £300,000 grant was made in 2006-07 for CRUK’s media campaign on the harmful constituents of secondhand smoke.

The Department awarded a grant of £5,000,000 to British Heart Foundation (BHF) under section 64 of the Health Services and Public Health Act 1968 to fund the charity’s media campaign in 2004-05 on heart disease caused by smoking. A further grant of £4,000,000 was made in 2005-06 to BHF for a media campaign highlighting the dangers of smoking and heart disease.

In each year since 2003, £2 million has been funding allocated to the nationwide system of local tobacco alliances and the Regional Tobacco Policy Managers.

The Department’s grants to Action on Smoking Health (ASH) under section 64 of the Health Services and Public Health Act 1968 are set out in the following table.

The Department’s grants to the No Smoking Day (NSD) organisation are set out in the following table.

The Department’s grants to QUIT (an organisation that provides support to smokers who want to quit smoking) under section 64 of the Health Services and Public Health Act 1968 are set out in the following table.