Smoking
(asked on 11th December 2014) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much has been spent on NHS smoking cessation services in each of the last five years.
Information relating to spend on smoking cessation services in the following table:
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| 2012/13 | 2011/12 | 2010/11 | 2009/10 | 2008/9 |
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Total expenditure (£000s) | 87,706 | 88,233 | 84,348 | 83,879 | 73,675 | |
“Statistics on stop smoking services in England” are available from the Health and Social Care Information Centre as part of their lifestyles data set:
Several organisations have not been able to provide financial data in the returns for 2012/13 so this data will represent a lower than actual national spend in this financial year.