§ Dr. GibsonTo ask the Secretary of State for Health when the evaluation being carried out by the NHS to verify whether those who stop smoking through the NHS stop smoking services have managed to remain non-smokers will be(a) completed and (b) published. [164231]
§ Miss Melanie JohnsonThe Department has funded an evaluation of the national health service stop smoking services programme, which is being carried out by a team led by Glasgow University.
The pilot study fieldwork is now complete and the research team which undertook the evaluation is currently writing up its findings. These will be published later this year.