Children of Alcoholics

Westminster Hall
Children’s Mental Health Week 2024 - Tue 30 Jan 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Rosena Allin-Khan (Lab - Tooting) One in five children have a mental illness, and half of all mental illnesses develop by the age of 14 - Speech Link
2: George Freeman (Con - Mid Norfolk) I particularly want to draw attention to the children of alcoholics and the great work done by the National - Speech Link
3: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) More than 2,000 young children are waiting for an assessment by CAMHS and some of those children have - Speech Link

Scottish Parliament Debate - Main Chamber
Alcohol Services - Thu 07 Sep 2023

Mentions:
1: Mochan, Carol (Lab - South Scotland) deaths in Scotland is at its highest level in 15 years, and, at the same time, there are 40,000 more children - Speech Link
2: McNeill, Pauline (Lab - Glasgow) Alcoholics Anonymous, which is an organisation and a fellowship that has helped millions of people—and - Speech Link
3: Mackay, Gillian (Green - Central Scotland) legislation to ban alcohol advertising during sporting events and—crucially—events that are aimed at children - Speech Link
4: Whitham, Elena (SNP - Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley) , some of this has come out of the pandemic. - Speech Link

Scottish Parliament Debate - Main Chamber
Alcohol and Drug Deaths (“See Beyond—See the Lives—Scotland” Campaign) - Thu 28 Sep 2023

Mentions:
1: Briggs, Miles (Con - Lothian) difficult it was for my dad to lose my mum to breast cancer and to be left as a single parent with three children - Speech Link
2: Greene, Jamie (Con - West Scotland) to see beyond the substance, the alcohol, the drink or the demon—to see beyond the drug addicts or alcoholics - Speech Link
3: Wishart, Beatrice (LD - Shetland Islands) I know that children who grow up in households where there is addiction can be impacted both in the short - Speech Link

Select Committee

GAM0113 - Gambling regulation

Written Evidence Sep. 05 2023

Inquiry: Gambling regulation
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Culture, Media and Sport Committee (Department: Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport)

Found: Problem gamblers are just as driven to obtain their ‘fix’ as are alcoholics, and they become adept

Deposited Papers

Oct. 16 2009

Found: Tables showing details of grants awarded by the Department of Health from 2005/06 to 2009/10. 6 p.

Deposited Papers

Jan. 19 2009

Found: at Home Grant175000.0175000.0175000.0Chase Hospice Care for ChildrenChildren's Hospice & Children at

Deposited Papers
Home Office

Dec. 08 2010

Found: In turn, the children of those dependent on drugs have to cope with the impact on their own lives and

Grand Committee
Horseracing and Bloodstock Industries - Thu 14 Sep 2023
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Baroness Harding of Winscombe (CON - Life peer) It has given me some of the best days of my life—I was encouraged to add the words “some of” into that - Speech Link
2: Earl of Effingham (CON - Excepted Hereditary) by adults and children alike from every different walk of life. - Speech Link
3: Lord Addington (LDEM - Excepted Hereditary) We do not blame brewers because a few people become alcoholics, or most of us do not anyway.How are we - Speech Link
4: Baroness Anderson of Stoke-on-Trent (LAB - Life peer) on matters of equine health and welfare, consideration of which must be at the core of every business - Speech Link

Deposited Papers

Oct. 14 2008

Found: Review of the fetal effects of parental alcohol exposure. 131 p.

Scottish Parliament Select Committee

AFS MUP submission

Correspondence Jan. 24 2024

Committee: Health, Social Care and Sport Committee

Found: AFS MUP submission Submission from Alcohol Focus Scotland ahead of their giving evidence on 6 February