Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the prevalence of alcohol related deaths in the 10 (a) most and (b) least deprived local authorities in the UK in each of the last seven years.

There is a marked and significant difference in the alcohol-related mortality rates between the most and least deprived local authorities in England. This inequality gap has persisted over the previous seven years.

As an example of this inequality, Public Health England observed a mortality rate of 84.6 (per 100,000) in Blackpool (the most deprived local authority in England) in 2017, compared to a mortality rate of 37.6 (per 100,000) in Hart (the least deprived local authority in England) for the same period.

For the local authorities in both groups, there has been no statistically significant change over the previous seven years, maintaining the inequality gap. Data is available on the Local Alcohol Profiles for England at the following link:

https://fingertips.phe.org.uk/profile/local-alcohol-profiles