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Nitrous Oxide: Misuse

Question for Department of Health

UIN 67526, tabled on 13 March 2017

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.

Answered on

16 March 2017

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.

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