Liam Byrne – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Liam Byrne on 2015-10-09.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate his Department has made of the number of alcoholics in each local authority area.

Jane Ellison

Data on numbers of alcohol-dependent people is not currently available by local authority.

The Department has commissioned the University of Sheffield to produce local authority estimates and their report is expected to be published in spring 2016.