Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the smoking quit rate was in (a) England, (b) each local authority, (c) each parliamentary constituency and (d) each clinical commissioning group area in England in each financial year since 2010-11.

Data on the number of self-reported successful quitters at four weeks per 100,000 smokers aged over 16 in England 2010/11 to 2016/17 are available in the following table.

Number of successful quitters at four weeks per 100,000 smokers aged 16+ in England 2010/11 to 2016/17

Notes:

1. From April 2013, responsibility for commissioning the NHS Stop Smoking Services moved from primary care trusts (PCTs) to local authorities. Therefore from April 2013 these data are collected and reported at region and local authority level rather than by strategic health authority and PCT.
2. Due to this change in methodology, data prior to 2013/14 are not comparable to those after.

Information on successful quitters at local authority level is not held in the format requested and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost. The data are not broken down by clinical commissioning group or parliamentary constituency and therefore are not available.