Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many (a) alcohol and (b) drug-related deaths have there been in the last five years in (i) Preston, (ii) Lancashire and (iii) the North West.
A total of 358 alcohol-related deaths in Preston, 3,075 alcohol-related deaths in Lancashire and 18,757 alcohol related-deaths in the North West occurred in the last five years for which data is available (2014 – 2018). This data is available on the Local Alcohol Profiles for England webpage published by Public Health England which can be viewed at the following link:
https://fingertips.phe.org.uk/profile/local-alcohol-profiles
Drugs poisoning deaths are published by the Office for National Statistics for overlapping three-year periods and are shown in the following table. They cannot be summed to create figures for other time periods:
Year | Preston | Lancashire | North West |
2012-14 | 22 | 234 | 1530 |
2013-15 | 27 | 240 | 1658 |
2014-16 | 31 | 265 | 1758 |
2015-17 | 39 | 283 | 1835 |
2016-18 | 39 | 299 | 1888 |
They can be viewed at the following link: