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 people in England who have been prescribed benzodiazepines and z drugs for longer than four weeks in each year since 2010.
Information is not held centrally on the number of people in England who are involuntarily addicted to prescribed drugs.
Information is not held centrally on the number of people prescribed particular medicines or the duration of treatment.