Question follow-through · 30058

Pregnancy: Smoking

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has plans to fund a financial incentives scheme to help pregnant women to stop smoking during this Parliament.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body: Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled: 10 Feb 2025
Target answer date: 13 Feb 2025
Answer: 13 Feb 2025 · 3 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

10 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has plans to fund a financial incentives scheme to help pregnant women to stop smoking during this Parliament.
13 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
13 Feb 2025
Answer published
Health is a devolved matter. In England, the Government is funding a broad package of measures to support current smokers to quit, including the National Smoke-free Pregnancy Incentives Scheme. The future settlement for the scheme will be confirmed in due...

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