Alcoholic Drinks: Misuse
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what information his Department holds on the number of deaths that were directly attributable to alcohol in each of the last five years.
Answered by Ashley Dalton
The following table shows the number of alcohol-specific deaths in England, deaths that have been wholly caused by alcohol consumption, for all age groups, from 2019 to 2023:
Year | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 |
Deaths | 5,819 | 6,984 | 7,556 | 7,912 | 8,274 |
The Department will continue to work across Government to better understand how we can best reduce alcohol-related harms, including alcohol specific deaths.
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