Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to Alcohol Research UK and Alcohol Concern's report, The hardest hit: Addressing the crisis in alcohol treatment services, published in May 2018, if he will make an assessment of the implications for his policies of the findings in that report; and if he will meet with representatives of the (a) Drugs, Alcohol and Justice and (b) Alchohol Harm All-Party Parliamentary Groups to discuss that report's recommendations for the alcohol treatment sector.

The Department keeps the impact of all its policies under review. I would be happy to receive a request for a meeting with members of the Drugs, Alcohol and Justice Cross-Party Parliamentary Group and the All Party Parliamentary Group on Alcohol Harm to discuss the report published by Alcohol Research UK and Alcohol Concern.