Philip Davies – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Philip Davies on 2014-05-01.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, who the members were of Sir Cyril Chantler’s Review team working as part of the Standardised Packaging for Tobacco Independent Review; and what the cost was of commissioning expert advice from (a) Dr Yanzhong Wang and (b) Professor Catherine Pope as part of this review.

Jane Ellison

The members of Sir Cyril’s team are named, and their roles noted in the acknowledgements on page 9 of Sir Cyril’s report. The costs of commissioning expert advice from Dr Wang and Professor Pope were £12,000 (plus VAT) and £3,000 (plus VAT) respectively.