Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much was spent on treatment for drug and alcohol addiction in 2016.

The Department for Communities and Local Government publishes statistics on local authority expenditure and total expenditure for drug and alcohol services in England. Links to the 2015/16 and 2016/17 data are below:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/local-authority-revenue-expenditure-and-financing-england-2016-to-2017-budget-individual-local-authority-data

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/local-authority-revenue-expenditure-and-financing-england-2015-to-2016-individual-local-authority-data

It is important to note that the expenditure on drug and alcohol services from the Public Health Grant may not reflect all the resources that a local authority may have used on drug and alcohol misuse. For example adult social care budgets can be used to help people as part of their recovery from drug and/or alcohol dependency.