Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what information his Department holds on the proportion of people in the UK (a) who smoke and (b) from other EU member states who smoke.

The Department considers a range of published statistics relating to smoking prevalence in England. These are drawn together in the Health and Social Care Information Centre report Statistics on Smoking, England, which is available at the link below:

http://www.hscic.gov.uk/catalogue/PUB20781

The Integrated Household Survey gives figures for the other United Kingdom countries and is available at the link below:

http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/dcp171778_418136.pdf

Information on smoking prevalence in European countries is available from the World Health Organization European Region Tobacco Control Database at the link below:

http://data.euro.who.int/Tobacco/