Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent assessment he has made of trends in the level of alcohol consumption across the last 25 years; and if he will make a statement.

The published Table 2.3 Alcohol Clearances per Adult in the HMRC Alcohol Factsheet provides the most recent alcohol consumption data for the last 25 years.

The HMRC Alcohol Factsheet is available at:

https://www.uktradeinfo.com/Statistics/Statistical%20Factsheets/AlcoholFactsheet1013.xls