Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the national trend in the consumption of alcohol (a) in total, (b) by men and (c) by women since 2005; and what estimate he has made of the number of (i) men and (ii) women who are drinking above the level recommended by Chief Medical Officer alcohol guidelines.

HM Revenue and Customs alcohol factsheet October 2013 provides data on alcohol consumption. The trends on alcohol consumption since 2005 can be found in Section 2 – Clearances, 2.3 Alcohol Clearances per Adult at:

https://www.uktradeinfo.com/Statistics/Pages/TaxAndDutyBulletins.aspx

An estimated 6,746,000 men and 3,549,000 women were drinking above the United Kingdom Chief Medical Officer’s alcohol guidelines prior to the recent revision, using Health and Social Care Information Centre, Health Survey for England 2014 data.