HC Deb 16 January 2002 vol 378 cc398-9W
Dr. Fox

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what information he has collated on the number of people who gave up smoking on the quit date set during their participating in smoking cessation services who have continued to abstain from tobacco in the following 12 months. [24586]

Yvette Cooper

The information requested is available in Statistical Bulletin 2001–32 "Statistics on smoking cessation services in England, April 2000 to March 2001", published by the Department on 5 December 2001, copies of which are available in the Library.

Table 13 of the bulletin gives information about the number of people setting a quit date and successful in specialist services in the health action zones in 1999–2000 and follow-up at 52 weeks.