Statistics on Women's Smoking Status at Time of Delivery: England, Quarter 4, 2023/24

7.4% of pregnant women were known to be smokers at the time of delivery in 2023-2024

This is a decrease from 8.8% in 2022-23 and from 12.2% in 2013-14.

The current national ambition is to achieve a level of 6% or less by 2022.

In quarter 4 of 2023-2024, the lowest proportions of women known to be smokers at time of delivery were in NHS North West London ICB - W2U3Z (2.5%), NHS Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes ICB - M1J4Y (2.5%), NHS North East London ICB - A3A8R (3.3%) and NHS Greater Manchester ICB - 02A (3.4%).

Two Sub-ICBs had proportions above 15%. Those with the highest were NHS Humber and North Yorkshire ICB - 03F (15.9%) and NHS Lancashire and South Cumbria ICB - 00R (15.7%).

Data was received from all Sub-ICBs for quarter 4.

An additional visualisation of this data, including time series, is available at the link below:

In quarter 4 of 2023-2024, 28 out of 106 submitting Sub-ICBs met the national ambition of 6% or less.

In the North West NHS England region, it was achieved by 8 out of 27 Sub-ICBs, but only by 20 Sub-ICBs outside of North West.