Asked by: Liam Byrne (Labour - Birmingham, Hodge Hill)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what his Department's strategy is for supporting children who are the children of alcoholics; and if he will make a statement.
Answered by Jane Ellison
Parents play a crucial role in how their children develop and behave and act as role models for them and we recognise that parental alcohol dependency can limit parenting capacity and this can have serious consequences for children.
A number of initiatives to ensure that children have the best possible start in life have been introduced:
- the national Healthy Child Programme supports children’s health and development, by providing parenting support and health promotion guidance; and
- the expanded Troubled Families programme launched in April 2015 offers support on health issues to up to 400,000 families, including for alcohol and drug misuse.
We have given local authorities more than £8 billion in funding over three years so they can put the right services in place to help their communities.
Public Health England’s role in supporting local authorities undertake their public health functions is vital in reducing the levels of alcohol harm and supporting young people with parents who are alcohol dependent.
As part of this Public Health England funded the “Alcohol and other Drug use: The Roles and Capabilities of Social Workers”. This guidance sets out the key roles for social workers in relation to substance misuse.
Asked by: Liam Byrne (Labour - Birmingham, Hodge Hill)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate his Department has made of the proportion of children who are the children of alcoholics who go on to misuse alcohol.
Answered by Jane Ellison
This data is not available centrally.
Asked by: Liam Byrne (Labour - Birmingham, Hodge Hill)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of which health and wellbeing boards are most effective in reducing misuse of alcohol; and if he will make a statement.
Answered by Jane Ellison
This data is not available centrally.
Asked by: Liam Byrne (Labour - Birmingham, Hodge Hill)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, which 50 areas have the highest incidence of the misuse of alcohol; and if he will make a statement.
Answered by Jane Ellison
We do not have any reliable data centrally for how areas are broadly affected by alcohol misuse.
We do have data from the public health outcomes framework indicator for hospital admissions where the main reason for admission was alcohol-related. Data for 2013-14 for each local authority is attached.
Asked by: Liam Byrne (Labour - Birmingham, Hodge Hill)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what guidance his Department has issued to local authorities on steps to tackle alcohol misuse.
Answered by Jane Ellison
Local authorities are responsible for assessing local need for alcohol prevention and treatment services and commissioning interventions and services based on that need. Public Health England (PHE) works closely with local authorities – via nine regional centres – by providing advice, support and evidence-based guidance in a range of public health issues, including alcohol misuse.
An example of this is the support PHE gives to local authority commissioners with the joint strategic needs assessment (JSNA) process and their local joint health and wellbeing strategies. The annual JSNA support pack from PHE covers four topics including alcohol harm prevention, treatment and recovery. For more information, see the pack which is available online at:
http://www.nta.nhs.uk/healthcare-JSNA.aspx
Asked by: Liam Byrne (Labour - Birmingham, Hodge Hill)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when he plans next to update the public health outcomes framework.
Answered by Jane Ellison
The consultation on updating the Public Health Outcomes Framework was published on 3 September and closed on 2 October. We are considering the responses and intend to publish our proposals in due course.
Asked by: Liam Byrne (Labour - Birmingham, Hodge Hill)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate his Department has made of the number of alcoholics in each local authority area.
Answered by 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.
Asked by: Liam Byrne (Labour - Birmingham, Hodge Hill)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what forecast his Department has made of the cost of alcoholism over the next 20 years.
Answered by Jane Ellison
Estimates for the cost of alcoholism over the next 20 years are not available centrally.
Asked by: Liam Byrne (Labour - Birmingham, Hodge Hill)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the number of children who are the children of alcoholics in each local authority area.
Answered by Jane Ellison
This data is not available centrally.
Asked by: Liam Byrne (Labour - Birmingham, Hodge Hill)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when NHS England plans to advertise its property on Treaford Lane, Washwood Heath, Birmingham as for sale.
Answered by Ben Gummer
NHS England advises that ownership of the former Treaford Lane Clinic property transferred to Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Trust on 1 April 2013.
As the sale of this property is a matter for the local National Health Service, the hon. Member may wish to approach the Chief Executive of the Trust for the information requested.