Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what information his Department holds on how many people of what age ranges gave up smoking in each of the last five years.

The Health and Social Care Information Centre collects this information on behalf of the Department and it is made publicly available at the following web addresses:

http://www.hscic.gov.uk/catalogue/PUB00417/nhs-stop-smok-serv-eng-2010-2011-tab.xls

http://www.hscic.gov.uk/catalogue/PUB07011/stat-stop-smok-eng-apr-11-mar-12-tab1.xls

http://www.hscic.gov.uk/catalogue/PUB12228/stat-stop-smok-serv-eng-apr-12-mar-13-tab1.xls

http://www.hscic.gov.uk/catalogue/PUB14610/stat-stop-smok-serv-eng-apr-13-mar-14-tab.xlsx

http://www.hscic.gov.uk/catalogue/PUB18002/stat-stop-smok-serv-eng-annual-1415.xlsx