Question follow-through · 122536
Meningitis: Smoking
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of (a) smoking and (b) passive smoking on the risk of invasive meningococcal disease.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 20 Mar 2026
- Target answer date
- 25 Mar 2026
- Answer
- 14 Apr 2026 · 25 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
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Recorded timeline
20 Mar 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of (a) smoking and (b) passive smoking on the risk of invasive meningococcal disease.
25 Mar 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
14 Apr 2026
Answer published
There is established evidence that exposure to tobacco smoke increases the risk of meningococcal disease. Tobacco smoking increases the risk of meningococcal carriage and meningococcal disease by damaging the nasopharyngeal mucosa and suppressing immune r...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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