Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the number and proportion of people in recipient of smoking cessation products dispensed via the NHS who have subsequently quit cigarettes for longer than four weeks in each of the last three years.

NHS Digital collects and publishes information delivered by local stop smoking services which are commissioned by local authorities. This includes information on the number of quit attempts by the type of pharmacotherapy received and whether the quit attempt was successful or not.

This a count of quit attempts and not people so those attempting to quit more than once in the time period will have each attempt recorded.

This information can be found in the attached document, with data collated from the NHS Digital publications, for years 2016-17, 2015-16 and 2014-15 available at the following links:

https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/statistics-on-nhs-stop-smoking-services-in-england/statistics-on-nhs-stop-smoking-services-england-april-2016-to-march-2017

https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/statistics-on-nhs-stop-smoking-services-in-england/statistics-on-nhs-stop-smoking-services-england-april-2015-to-march-2016

https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/statistics-on-nhs-stop-smoking-services-in-england/statistics-on-nhs-stop-smoking-services-in-england-april-2014-to-march-2015