Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whats steps his Department is taking to reduce the number of alcohol related deaths (a) generally and (b) among young females.

Public Health England (PHE) is working with local authorities, the National Health Service and prevention and treatment providers in England to support their work in reducing the number of deaths from alcohol.

This includes supporting improvements to help increase the number of people with alcohol problems who are in treatment and supporting NHS England’s tobacco and alcohol commissioning for quality and innovation scheme, which encourages hospitals to screen all inpatients about their alcohol use and offer appropriate interventions.

PHE publishes data to show the number of alcohol related deaths at local authority level. This can be viewed at the following links:

https://fingertips.phe.org.uk/

https://healthierlives.phe.org.uk/

PHE is also working with NHS England to implement a programme targeting people who are alcohol dependent, as part the NHS Long Term Plan.