AQW 2204/16-21

Ms Paula Bradshaw
Alliance Party
South Belfast

Tabled Date: 01/07/2016
Answered On Date: 08/07/2016
Priority Written: No

Question:
To ask the Minister of Health to outline what progress has been made on the introduction of legislation, in line with England and Wales, to ban smoking in cars with children.

Answer:

The Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act (Northern Ireland) 2016, which came into effect on 12 May, contains regulation-making powers which will allow my Department to ban the use of tobacco in cars when a person under the age of 18 is present.

My Department is in the process of drafting these regulations. It is intended that the draft regulations will be published for public consultation later this year.