This information is shared regularly with those working in tobacco control and cessation through regular campaign updates. Our tobacco education campaign, launched in December 1999, is aimed at persuading smokers to give up and non-smokers, particularly children, not to start. As part of the broader campaign we are planning dedicated sub- campaigns aimed at pregnant women, ethnic minorities etc. Member to the reply I gave to the right hon. The number of dentists employed by the National Health Service at 30 September in each of the years 1998 to 2000 is given in table 1 for each of the dental services for England and Devon.
Issues relating to Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are matters for the devolved authorities.
Clinical assistants are excluded from the Devon figures. The number of principal dentists who were on health authority lists to provide dental services and their assistants and vocational dental practitioners are shown in table 2. I understand the Department has received representations at a local level which are currently being considered and will be responded to accordingly. The National Health Service guidance for upper gastrointestinal cancer was published in January 2001. It recommends, in line with previous guidance for breast, colorectal, lung and gynaecological cancer, that care should be delivered by specialist multidisciplinary teams.