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Smoking: Finance

Volume 473: debated on Wednesday 12 March 2008

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much was spent on smoking cessation services in each primary care trust area in each of the last five years. (192362)

The information requested is not available centrally by primary care trust.

Information on expenditure on national health service stop smoking services by strategic health authority (SHA) is available in April 2006 to March 2007 and April 2005 to March 2006 from the publications shown as follows. These publications are available in the Library:

‘Statistics on NHS Stop Smoking Services in England, April 2005 to March 2006’ (Annual statistical bulletin) Table 5.7, page 54, which was published on September 28, 2006.

‘Statistics on NHS Stop Smoking Services in England, April 2006 to March 2007’ (Annual statistical bulletin) Table 3.9, page 39, which was published on August 17, 2007.

For earlier years the figures at SHA level have not been published previously. SHA level expenditure on NHS stop smoking services for two years April 2004 to March 2005 and April 2003 to March 2004 are shown in the following table.

The figures for April 2002 to March 2003 are not available.

Table 1: Total expenditure1 for NHS Stop Smoking Services by Government Office Region and Strategic Health Authority, 2003-04 and 2004-05, England

Total expenditure (£000)

2003-04

2004-05

England

36,201

47,069

North East Government Office Region

2,297

2,895

County Durham and Tees Valley

908

1,269

Northumberland, Tyne and Wear

1,389

1,626

North West Government Office Region

5,597

7,135

Cheshire and Merseyside

1,816

2,523

Cumbria and Lancashire

1,446

1,713

Greater Manchester

2,335

2,899

Yorkshire and the Humber Government Office Region

3,744

4,702

North and East Yorkshire, Northern Lincolnshire

1,072

1,316

South Yorkshire

1,295

2,006

West Yorkshire

1,377

1,380

East Midlands Government Office Region

3,334

4,278

Leicestershire, Northamptonshire and Rutland

1,013

1,444

Trent

2,321

2,834

West Midlands Government Office Region

4,684

6,173

Birmingham and The Black Country

2,220

3,073

Shropshire and Staffordshire

1,277

1,581

West Midlands South

1,187

1,519

East of England Government Office Region

2,474

3,717

Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire

725

934

Essex

841

1,375

Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire

908

1,408

London Government Office Region

5,942

8,095

North Central London

1,285

1,827

North East London

1,468

1,614

North West London

1,336

1,974

South East London

1,200

1,601

South West London

654

1,078

South East Government Office Region

4,544

5,767

Hampshire and Isle of Wight

847

1,275

Kent and Medway

795

1,405

Surrey and Sussex

1,594

1,477

Thames Valley

1,308

1,611

South West Government Office Region

3,586

4,308

Avon, Gloucestershire and Wiltshire

1,496

1,745

Dorset and Somerset

922

1,086

South West Peninsula

1,167

1,477

1 Total expenditure excludes NRT and bupropion (Zyban) on prescription

Source:

Lifestyle Statistics. The Information Centre, 2007