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Written question asked by Fiona Bruce (Conservative) on Thursday, 19 May 2016, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Thursday, 26 May 2016 (named day). It was answered by Jane Ellison (Conservative) on Thursday, 26 May 2016 on behalf of the Department of Health.

Alcoholic Drinks: Misuse

Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate his Department has made of the number of (a) harmful and (b) hazardous alcohol drinkers in (i) England, (ii) each local authority area and (iii) each parliamentary constituency in the latest year for which data are available.

Answer

Hazardous drinking is a pattern of alcohol consumption carrying risks of physical and psychological harm to the individual. Harmful drinking denotes the most hazardous use of alcohol, at which damage to health is likely.

Data is not collected centrally for the numbers of harmful and hazardous alcohol drinkers by parliamentary constituency.

The published table 9.3 in the Health and Social Care Information Centre, Adult psychiatric morbidity in England, 2007 Results of a household survey provides the most recent prevalence estimates of hazardous and harmful drinking in the past year.

The report is available at:

http://www.hscic.gov.uk/catalogue/PUB02931/adul-psyc-morb-res-hou-sur-eng-2007-rep.pdf

The most recent estimates of increasing and higher risk drinking for local authority areas were published in 2012 (based on 2009 data) in the Public Health England (PHE), Local Alcohol Profiles for England (LAPE).

The PHE LAPE is available at:

http://www.lape.org.uk/downloads/LAPE_LA_Dataset_PHE_280514_FINAL.xlsx

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
37709
Session
2016-17
Subjects
Alcoholic drinks Misuse
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
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