Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the impact of cheap, super-strength alcohol on levels of crime and antisocial behaviour.

The association between the consumption of cheap, super-strength beers and ciders and anti-social behaviour and low level crime is well known. The Government has set out its approach to reducing alcohol-related crime and disorder in the Modern Crime Prevention Strategy, published in 2016.

Alcohol-related violent incidents, as measured by the Crime Survey for England and Wales, has fallen from 901,000 in 2009/10 to 491,000 in 2015/16; the proportion of people reporting drunk or rowdy behaviour as a problem in their neighbourhood has also fallen, from 24% in 2009/10 to 16% in 2016/17.