To allocate £63,270 of the North Yorkshire Smokefree Generation grant from the Department of Health and Social Care to the regional Centre for Excellence for Tobacco Control hosted by the Humber and North Yorkshire Health and Care Partnership.
At HAS Executive on 15th March 2024, a Key Decision was made to enable the Local Authority to accept this additional grant funding at the start of the current financial year (2024-25). As part of this Key Decision process, the Executive Member for Health and Adult Services was briefed around the proposed spend plan for the first year of this funding. This spend plan included a portion of the allocation for North Yorkshire being allocated to the Centre for Excellence for Tobacco Control. At the time of the decision, an amount was not confirmed but it was proposed that circa 10% of the grant would be invested in the Centre for Excellence Tobacco Control.