Internal Reference Number: FOI_9472
Date Request Received: 22/06/2026 00:00:00
Date Request Replied To: 25/06/2026 00:00:00
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Request Summary: Smoking Enforcement and Fines on Hospital Grounds (2022鈥�2025)
Request Category: Companies
| Question Number 1: Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, I would like to please request the following information relating to smoking enforcement on or around hospital grounds. Please provide the following information for each of your hospitals for each of the calendar years below: 2022 2023 2024 2025 How many fixed penalty notices (FPNs) related to smoking on or near hospital grounds have been issued by your organisation? | |
| Answer To Question 1: Nil | |
| Question Number 2: What was the total monetary value of these fines? | |
| Answer To Question 2: N/a | |
| Question Number 3: How many of these fines remain unpaid (if recorded)? | |
| Answer To Question 3: N/a | |
| Question Number 4: How many formal warnings relating to smoking on or near hospital grounds were issued? | |
| Answer To Question 4: N/a | |
| Question Number 5: What is the current policy regarding smoking on or near hospital grounds within your NHS Board / Trust / local authority area? | |
| Answer To Question 5: https://app.eolasmedical.com/documents/viewer/SEC%235c04d7a4-b038-4822-bdec-feb0c4d103c7/eolas-editor/FILE%2370d3db23-e327-4bad-ab56-88957f1f6125?shadowCopyContentId=FILE%23d98be4a3-82f5-48db-a977-8c78dca7e3dd&shouldShowBreadcrumbs=true&shouldShowAdminOptions=true | |
| Question Number 6: How many formal complaints has your NHS Board / Trust received? | |
| Answer To Question 6: 2022 - <5 2023 - <5 2024 - <5 2025 - <5 2026 - <5 | |
| Question Number 7: Does your organisation enforce a smoke-free perimeter or exclusion zone around hospital entrances or buildings? If yes: What is the required distance? When was the policy introduced? | |
| Answer To Question 7: The Trust has a Smoke Free Policy so therefore the smoke free perimeter or exclusion zone is the whole of the Estate. This Policy came into effect on 1st January 2019. | |
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