Health Secretary to face questions on timetable to regulate smoking and vaping
21 March 2024
MPs will question Secretary of State Victoria Atkins on the timetable to allow regulation set out in the Tobacco and Vaping Bill to come into force.
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- Health and Social Care Committee
Questions are also expected on a range of topics the committee has examined, including delays to dental reform posed by a government consultation, concerns about protection offered to whistleblowers on patient safety, levels of health spending announced in the Budget, challenges within cancer services with targets being missed, the backlog and the case for a men’s health strategy to tackle falling levels of life expectancy.
Witnesses
Monday 25 March in the Thatcher Room, Portcullis House
At 4.30pm
- Rt Hon Victoria Atkins MP, Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, Department of Health and Social Care
- Sir Chris Wormald, Permanent Secretary, Department of Health and Social Care
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