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1656933

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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

1646411

registered interest
date	21/06/2023
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 efficacy of smoking cessation (a) products and (b) approaches; and what research his Department has commissioned into the efficacy of smoking cessation (i) products and (ii) approaches.
tabling member constituency	Knowsley
tabling member printed	Sir George Howarth
uin	190508
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/06/2023 answer text <p>The assessment of the efficacy of smoking cessation products and approaches are presented in the evidence review for the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guideline ‘Tobacco: preventing uptake, promoting quitting and treating dependence’ published 30 November 2021 available at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ng209/evidence/evidence-reviews-11188110061?tab=evidence" target="_blank">https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ng209/evidence/evidence-reviews-11188110061?tab=evidence</a></p><p>Through the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR), the Department regularly commissions research into the efficacy of smoking cessation products and approaches. Active NIHR projects include:</p><p>- Effectiveness of Electronic Cigarettes compared with combination nicotine replacement therapy for smoking cessation in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease And effect on Lung health (ECAL study);</p><p>- Effects of e-cigarettes vs usual care for smoking cessation when offered at homeless centres: A cluster randomised controlled trial;</p><p>- Cessation of Smoking Trial in the Emergency Department (CoSTED); and</p><p>- Do e-cigarettes help smokers quit when not accompanied by intensive behavioural support?</p><p> </p><p>The NIHR is also the largest funder of the Cochrane Tobacco Addiction Group which conducts systematic reviews of the evidence on interventions to prevent and treat tobacco addiction.</p> answering member constituency Harborough answering member printed Neil O'Brien question first answered 26/06/2023 15:08:45 answering member 4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien
tabling member	481 label Biography information for Sir George Howarth