§ Lord Lairdasked Her Majesty's Govermment:
How much the National Health Service in the whole of the United Kingdom spent during the last financial year on smoking-related illnesses. [HL3172]
§ The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department of Health (Lord Hunt of Kings Heath)The information requested is not available. However a studyCost Effectiveness of Smoking Cessation Interventions by the Health Education Authority, in collaboration with the University of York, published in 1997, estimated the annual cost to the National Health Service of treating smoking related disease caused by smoking was between £1.4 billion and £1.7 billion for England, This is the most recent available estimate.