educating the grannies, the mothers, they're going to educate their children not to smoke as well, because it's them that's the future, isn't it? in england, public health measures like stop smoking services are funded by local authorities, with a grant from the department for health and social care worth £3.11 billion this year. but budgets have been squeezed hard over the last decade, and now rising inflation means the money is getting spread ever more thinly. and in communities like gateshead, with areas of severe deprivation, talk of further budget cuts is a bleak prospect. it really concerns me. i'm here to improve and protect the health and wellbeing of the population in gateshead, and actually having some of the limitations around budgets is really concerning. so, if you take tobacco, for example, tobacco harm in gateshead costs about £62 million a year, about £9 million to the nhs. so, if we were reducing some of those services that help us to tackle that issue, it doesn't make any sense.