Philip Davies – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Philip Davies on 2014-04-07.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether funding allocated to Action on Smoking and Health may be used for campaigning purposes by that body under the terms on which it is allocated.

Jane Ellison

Since 2011, the conditions for the grants provided to Action on Smoking and Health under the Department of Health’s “Section 64 General Scheme of Grants to voluntary and Community Organisations” arrangements have explicitly set out that none of the funding provided by the Department should be intended or used for political lobbying or campaigning purposes.

Advocacy work in support of the implementation of existing Government Tobacco Control policies and programmes of work is acceptable.