Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much funding from the Drug Strategy Fund he plans to dedicate to the Children of Alcohol Dependent Parents Programme.

The Department is not mandating how local authorities (LAs) spend their allocation of the drug strategy funding. It is for LAs to determine what interventions best augment their current treatment system and local need, based on a menu of interventions. The menu of interventions includes several interventions relating to children and families.

The Department has and will continue to encourage LAs to invest in interventions that will benefit, children and families. We provide oversight of local delivery at a national level and continue to monitor implementation against the aims of the drug strategy. We estimate between £2.4 million and £5.6 million of drug strategy funding was spent on family interventions and parental substance misuse in 2022/23.