Charles Walker – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Charles Walker on 2015-02-11.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the cost of treating alcohol-related illnesses in each of the last three years.

Jane Ellison

Estimates have been made of the cost to the National Health Service of alcohol related harm at around £2.7 billion per year in 2006-07 and £3.5 billion per year in 2009-10.

Work is under way in the Department to produce estimates for more recent years.