The Bishop of St Albans received the following written answers on 2nd September 2024:
The Lord Bishop of St Albans asked His Majesty’s Government:
- how many clinical diagnoses of alcoholism there were for men in (1) 2019, (2) 2020, (3) 2021, (4) 2022, and (5) 2023.
- how many clinical diagnoses of alcoholism there were for persons aged 10–19 in (1) 2019, (2) 2020, (3) 2021, (4) 2022, and (5) 2023.
- how many clinical diagnoses of alcoholism there have been for young people aged 20–24 in (1) 2019, (2) 2020, (3) 2021, (4) 2022, and (5) 2023.
Baroness Merron (Lab, DHSC): We do not hold this data centrally, in the format requested. The Department publishes Estimates of alcohol dependent adults in England: Summary, which can be viewed on the GOV.UK website, in an online only format. This is an estimate of the number of adults who are dependent on alcohol, many of whom will have never received a clinical diagnosis of alcohol dependence by National Health Services, or by accessing alcohol treatment.
The Lord Bishop of St Albans asked His Majesty’s Government how many individuals aged 10–19 received treatment for alcohol abuse in (1) 2019, (2) 2020, (3) 2021, (4) 2022, and (5) 2023
Baroness Merron: The information is not available in the format requested. The number of people who have received alcohol treatment is collected and published by the National Drug Treatment Monitoring System (NDTMS), with treatment numbers being published from April to March each year. The following table shows the number of people aged 10 to 19 years old who received treatment for their alcohol use, from 2018/19 to 2022/23:
| Year | People between 10 and 19 years old who received treatment for their alcohol use |
| 2018/19 | 8,220 |
| 2019/20 | 7,659 |
| 2020/21 | 6,060 |
| 2021/22 | 6,955 |
| 2022/23 | 7,123 |
Source of Data: National Drug Treatment Monitoring System.
The Lord Bishop of St Albans asked His Majesty’s Government how many clinical diagnoses of alcoholism there were for women in (1) 2019, (2) 2020, (3) 2021, (4) 2022, and (5) 2023.
Baroness Merron: Alcoholism is not a clinical diagnosis, instead individuals who use alcohol in a dependent way are diagnosed with alcohol dependence. Whilst we don’t collect this data centrally in the format requested, the Department publishes Estimates of alcohol dependent adults in England: Summary, which can be viewed on the GOV.UK website in an online only format. This is an estimate of the number of adults who are dependent on alcohol, many of whom will never have received a clinical diagnosis of alcohol dependence in the National Health Service or by accessing alcohol treatment. This publication provides estimates covering the years 2015 to 2020 and are shown in the table below:
| Year | Estimated number of alcohol dependent adults in England |
| 2015 to 2016 | 595,856 |
| 2016 to 2017 | 589,101 |
| 2017 to 2018 | 586,780 |
| 2018 to 2019 | 602,391 |
| 2019 to 2020 | 608,416 |
Source: Estimates of alcohol dependent adults in England: Summary
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