HC Deb 03 November 1993 vol 231 cc210-1W
Mrs. Wise

To ask the Secretary of State for Health if she will list the projects commissioned since 1975 by her Department and by its predecessor Department to evaluate methods of getting smokers to give up smoking; if she will list for each project the name and institution of the principal investigator and the titles of the reports in which the findings were published; and if she will place a copy of each report in the Library.

Mr. Sackville

The Department of Health and its predecessor has participated in a number of programmes of basic social/behavioural research on factors affecting smoking habits, and several large, ad hoc research studies. These provide a wealth of information on which more specific, targeted smoking cessation interventions are based.

A list of the studies will be placed in the Library.

The studies are listed and those marked* were concerned specifically with the evaluation of smoking cessation interventions. Also listed are three specific evaluation projects which are currently in planning.

Mrs. Wise

To ask the Secretary of State for Health if she will list the projects commissioned since 1975 by the Health Education Authority and its predecessor, the Health Education Council, to evaluate methods of getting smokers to give up smoking, and for each project the name and institution of the principal investigator and the titles of the reports in which the findings were published; and if she will place a copy of each report in the Library.

Mr. Sackville

Little of the research work of the Health Education Authority or its predecessor the Health Education Council has been specifically devoted to evaluation of smoking cessation interventions but many of the studies carried out by or on behalf of these bodies contain information on the social/behaviourial factors affecting smoking habits. They therefore form the basis for specific targeted smoking cessation interventions.

A full list of Health Education Council and Health Education Authority publications on smoking will be placed in the Library.