Written Answers — Department of Health: Nitrous Oxide: Misuse

Mike Wood: To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the cost to the NHS of treating people who have inhaled nitrous oxide in the last 12 months for which figures are available.

Nicola Blackwood (The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health)

Data on the costs to the National Health Service of treating people who have inhaled nitrous oxide in the last 12 months is not collected centrally. No assessment of such costs has been made over the last 12 months.