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1717752

registered interest
date	13/05/2024
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Smoking: Health Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will make an estimate of the annual cost to the NHS of pipe smoking.
tabling member constituency	Rother Valley
tabling member printed	Alexander Stafford
uin	26013
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/05/2024 answer text <p>Tobacco is responsible for approximately 80,000 deaths a year in the United Kingdom, and causes approximately one in four UK cancer deaths. It also costs our country £21.8 billion a year and puts a huge burden on the National Health Service. Latest estimates from Action on Smoking and Health put the cost of smoking to the NHS and social care at £3 billion a year.</p><p>All smoked tobacco is extremely harmful, including pipe smoking. Smoking is the main driver for conditions such as lung cancer and severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and is a major factor for others such as premature cardiovascular disease.</p><p>Data from the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities Smoking Profile showed that in 2019/20 there were an estimated 448,031 smoking attributable hospital admissions, but we cannot differentiate by the type of tobacco. As such, the Department does not hold data on the annual costs to the NHS of pipe smoking, nor data on the number of hospital admissions for issues related to pipe smoking in the last 12 months, five years, or 20 years.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom grouped question UIN 26012 question first answered 20/05/2024 11:36:23 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	4866 label Biography information for Alexander Stafford

1689227

registered interest
date	16/02/2024
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Smoking: Health Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many mental health trusts are implementing smoking cessation services.
tabling member constituency	Rotherham
tabling member printed	Sarah Champion
uin	14087
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/02/2024 answer text <p>Smoking is the number one entirely preventable cause of ill-health, disability and death in this country. It is responsible for 80,000 yearly deaths in the United Kingdom and one in four of all UK cancer deaths. Smoking is closely associated with poor mental health and wellbeing, as people with mental health conditions die 10 to 20 years earlier, with smoking contributing significantly to this. Further information on the wellbeing of smokers aged 18 years old and over, and the relationship between smoking and mental health, is available respectively at the following links:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/smoking-prevalence-in-adults-current-smokers-aged-over-18-years-by-wellbeing-group-and-region" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/smoking-prevalence-in-adults-current-smokers-aged-over-18-years-by-wellbeing-group-and-region</a></p><p><a href="https://ukhsa.blog.gov.uk/2020/02/26/health-matters-smoking-and-mental-health/" target="_blank">https://ukhsa.blog.gov.uk/2020/02/26/health-matters-smoking-and-mental-health/</a></p><p>It also costs our country £17 billion a year, £14 billion of which is through lost productivity alone. It puts huge pressure on the National Health Service and social care, costing over £3 billion a year. At the end of quarter three of 2023/24, 37 out of 48 Mental Health services identified as eligible under the NHS Long Term Plan, are reporting that they are delivering tobacco dependence treatment services.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 26/02/2024 15:14:47 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	4267 label Biography information for Sarah Champion

1686236

registered interest
date	31/01/2024
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Smoking: Health Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what guidance her Department has issued to local authority smoking cessation services on whether they can offer disposable vapes through the Swap to Stop scheme; and whether her Department has received representations on the distribution of disposable vapes by local authorities from Yorkshire Cancer Research.
tabling member constituency	North Tyneside
tabling member printed	Mary Glindon
uin	12291
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2024 answer text <p>We launched the national Swap to Stop scheme in November 2023 to provide local authorities up to one million free vape starter kits, alongside the provision of behavioural support, to help smokers quit smoking. Disposable vapes are not available under the national Swap to Stop scheme. The Department has not received representations from Yorkshire Cancer Research on the distribution of disposable vapes to local authorities.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 08/02/2024 15:35:08 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	4126 label Biography information for Mary Glindon

1667646

registered interest
date	07/11/2023
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Smoking: Health Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of hospital trusts run specialist in-patient smoking cessation services; and what recent estimate he has made of when all hospital trusts will provided these services.
tabling member constituency	Don Valley
tabling member printed	Nick Fletcher
uin	602
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/11/2023 answer text <p>As of September 2023, 74% of trusts were delivering an inpatient smoking cessation service. As part of the NHS Long Term Plan, it has been agreed that integrated care boards will determine locally when they achieve a 100% level of trusts providing this service.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 16/11/2023 12:44:45 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	4832 label Biography information for Nick Fletcher

1666655

registered interest
date	23/10/2023
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Smoking: Health Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 8 September 2023 to Question 197002 on Tobacco: support for stop smoking services, whether he plans to expand the scope of the swap to stop scheme to include licensed (a) nicotine replacement therapies and (b) stop smoking medicines.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
tabling member printed	Dan Carden
uin	203923
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2023 answer text <p>There are no current plans to expand the Swap to Stop programme to include nicotine replacement therapies or stop smoking medicines, as they are already routinely provided by local Stop Smoking Services.</p><p>The Swap to Stop programme has been developed to provide smokers with more choice by providing the option of accessing free vapes to support quit attempts, in addition to the existing offer. This programme includes expert support provided by local Stop Smoking Services.</p><p>Stop Smoking Services continue to enable smokers to access a combination of behavioural support from a trained advisor as well as medicines and medicinally licensed nicotine replacement therapy for up to 12 weeks.</p> answering member constituency Harborough answering member printed Neil O'Brien question first answered 25/10/2023 16:08:23 answering member 4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien
tabling member	4651 label Biography information for Dan Carden

1665475

registered interest
date	17/10/2023
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Smoking: Health Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of expanding the swap to stop scheme to include smoking cessation products such as nicotine replacement therapies.
tabling member constituency	Stockton North
tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
uin	202976
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2023 answer text <p>The Swap to Stop programme has been developed to provide smokers with more choice by providing the option of accessing free vapes to support quit attempts. This offer includes expert support provided by local stop smoking services.</p><p>Medicinally licensed nicotine replacement therapies are already available to smokers via prescription or voucher. Stop smoking service data suggests that 69% of 176,566 stop smoking service users accessed licensed nicotine replacement therapy in 2022/23. Whilst there is not currently a medicinally licensed vape, the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency stands ready to support a future medicinally licensed vaping product should industry come forward with a successful candidate.</p> answering member constituency Harborough answering member printed Neil O'Brien question first answered 23/10/2023 13:41:00 answering member 4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien previous answer version 99502 answering member constituency Harborough answering member printed Neil O'Brien answering member 4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien
tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

1660977

registered interest
date	15/09/2023
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Smoking: Health Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people have accessed smoking cessation services in each of the last 10 years.
tabling member constituency	Ilford North
tabling member printed	Wes Streeting
uin	199774
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2023 answer text <p>Statistics on the number of people setting a quit date through smoking cessation services in each of the last 10 years are available at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/statistics-on-nhs-stop-smoking-services-in-england/april-2022-to-march-2023-q4/datasets" target="_blank">https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/statistics-on-nhs-stop-smoking-services-in-england/april-2022-to-march-2023-q4/datasets</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Harborough answering member printed Neil O'Brien question first answered 16/10/2023 09:03:06 answering member 4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien
tabling member	4504 label Biography information for Wes Streeting

1661043

registered interest
date	15/09/2023
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Smoking: Health Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of (a) providing additional funding for services that help people stop smoking and (b) using proceeds from the tobacco industry to fund smoking cessation services.
tabling member constituency	Ealing Central and Acton
tabling member printed	Dr Rupa Huq
uin	199787
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/10/2023 answer text <p>The Public Health Grant will increase over the current spending review period, rising to nearly £3.6 billion in 2024/25 and continues to support local authorities to provide a range of public health services, including stop smoking services.</p><p>Latest figures from 2021/22 show that local authorities reported spend of £68 million on local authority led stop smoking services, with further reported spend of nearly £12 million on wider tobacco control.</p><p>Local authorities are best placed to identify the groups within their community where resources should be focused to reduce smoking harms. We continue to work with HM Treasury regarding tobacco taxation and revenue funding, including reviewing options to raise additional funds for smoking cessation services.</p> answering member constituency Harborough answering member printed Neil O'Brien question first answered 04/10/2023 14:39:47 answering member 4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien
tabling member	4511 label Biography information for Dr Rupa Huq

1656933

registered interest
date	01/09/2023
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Smoking: Health Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of streamlining the process for making packaging changes on licensed smoking cessation products.
tabling member constituency	Dulwich and West Norwood
tabling member printed	Helen Hayes
uin	196596
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/09/2023 answer text <p>No assessment has been made.</p> answering member constituency Harborough answering member printed Neil O'Brien question first answered 07/09/2023 16:19:12 answering member 4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien
tabling member	4510 label Biography information for Helen Hayes

1657432

registered interest
date	01/09/2023
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Smoking: Health Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to (a) support access to and (b) provide funding for stop smoking services.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
tabling member printed	Dan Carden
uin	197002
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/09/2023 answer text <p>Adult smoking rates are at their lowest level in England at 12.7%. The public health grant continues to support local authorities to provide a range of public health services, including stop smoking services. Latest figures from 2021/22 show that we provided £68 million to local authority led Stop Smoking Services, with further reported spend of just under £12 million on wider tobacco control.</p><p>We continue to roll out the NHS Long Term Plan commitments for delivery of National Health Service tobacco dependence treatment services for those admitted to hospital and pregnant smokers. The NHS allocated £35 million spend over 2022/23 and will do so again this year.</p><p>To meet our ambition to be Smokefree by 2030, on 11 April 2023 the Government announced a range of new measures to help people quit smoking. This included a national Swap to Stop scheme to deliver one million vapes to help smokers quit, and a financial incentive scheme to support pregnant smokers to quit smoking.</p> answering member constituency Harborough answering member printed Neil O'Brien question first answered 08/09/2023 11:06:17 answering member 4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien
tabling member	4651 label Biography information for Dan Carden