AQW 2839/17-22

Ms Paula Bradshaw
Alliance Party
South Belfast

Tabled Date: 27/02/2020
Answered On Date: 12/03/2020
Priority Written: No

Question:
To ask the Minister of Health whether a commitment to a smoke-free Northern Ireland by 2035 will appear in any forthcoming strategies.

Answer:

My Department’s 10-year Tobacco Control Strategy for Northern Ireland was published in 2012. While it does not have a smoke-free target date, it has the overall aim of a tobacco-free society.

The Department will, however, consider the appropriateness of a smoke-free target date for Northern Ireland in the development of any future tobacco control strategy.