Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what his comparative estimate is of the number of deaths due to cancer for which the primary cause was smoking in (a) 2004 and (b) 2014.

Time series data showing the estimated number of deaths for adults aged 35 and over that can be attributed to smoking from 2001 to 2013 inclusive is provided in the Health and Social Care Information Centre 2014 Supplementary information files which is available at:

http://www.hscic.gov.uk/article/5317/2014-Supplementary-information-files

2014 mortality data has not yet been published. These data will be released with the forthcoming Statistics on Smoking, England - 2015 publication.

A table providing data from 2003, 2004 and 2013 is attached.