Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to statistics on NHS Stop Smoking Services, England - April 2014 to September 2014, published by the Health and Social Care Information Centre in January 2015, what assessment he has made of the factors that have contributed to the decline in the number of people who have reported stopping smoking through an NHS Stop Smoking Service.

Whilst no formal assessment has been made of the reduction in the numbers accessing local stop smoking services, as the proportion of the population who smoke declines, there will be a smaller pool of people who might choose to access these services.

Electronic cigarettes (or nicotine vapourisers) have become an increasingly popular way of quitting.