Written question asked by David Ruffley (Conservative) on Thursday, 28 January 2010, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Monday, 1 February 2010. It was answered by Baroness Merron (Labour) on Thursday, 4 February 2010 on behalf of the Department of Health.

Alcoholic Drinks: Misuse

Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many admissions to hospital from accident and emergency departments for an alcohol-related diagnosis there were of people (a) under the age of 18 years in (i) the former Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire strategic health authority area, (ii) the East of England strategic health authority area, (iii) the West Suffolk Hospital NHS trust area and (iv) the Suffolk primary care trust area in each year since 1997.

Answer

The information is not available in the format requested. However, data from 2002-03 have been set out in the following table.

	2002-03	2003-04	2004-05	2005-06	2006-07	2007-08	2008-09
Former Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire Strategic Health Authority (SHA) area¹	316	393	399	394	364	378	321
East of England SHA area	687	807	838	831	847	865	699
West Suffolk Hospitals NHS Trust area²	30	50	53	37	31	49	46
Suffolk Primary Care Trust (PCT) area³	93	125	126	93	81	92	83
¹ The figures for former the Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire SHA area for 2002-03 to 2005-06 have been constructed by combining North Peterborough, South Peterborough, Huntingdonshire, Cambridge City, South Cambridgeshire, East Cambridgeshire and Fenland, Norwich, Southern Norfolk, West Norfolk, Broadland, North Norfolk, Great Yarmouth, Waveney, Ipswich, Suffolk Coastal, Central Suffolk and Suffolk West PCTs; those for 2006-07 to 2008-09 have been constructed by combining Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, Norfolk, Great Yarmouth and Waveney, and Suffolk PCTs.
² Providers do not cover a limited 'area'. Patients treated at West Suffolk Hospitals NHS Trust could reside anywhere in England.
³ The figures for Suffolk PCT for 2002-03 to 2005-06 have been constructed by combining Ipswich, Suffolk Coastal, Central Suffolk and Suffolk West PCTs.
Source:
Hospital Episode Statistics, The Information Centre for health and social care.

Secondary information