Smoking: Health Services
(asked on 25th October 2018) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the effect of smoking cessation treatments on health inequalities in the UK; and if he will make an estimate of the relative uptake of smoking cessation treatments by socio-economic group.
This question was answered on 2nd November 2018
The Tobacco Control Plan 2017-2022 published last year commits the Government to reduce the inequality gap in smoking prevalence between those in routine and manual occupations and the general population. Smoking cessation treatment is one part of the comprehensive approach to tobacco control required to achieve this ambition.