Alcoholic Drinks: Prices
(asked on 9th November 2021) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty's Government what recent estimate they have made of the cost of alcohol on (1) the NHS, and on (2) society in general.
This question was answered on 10th December 2021
Alcohol-related harm was estimated to cost the National Health Service £3.5 billion per year in 2009/10.
The cost of alcohol to society in England was estimated to be £21 billion per year in 2012. This includes the costs associated with alcohol-related health disorders and disease, crime and anti-social behaviour, and loss of productivity in the workplace.