Department of Health and Social Care written question – answered am ar 2 Awst 2024.
The Bishop of St Albans
Convenor of the Lords Spiritual
To ask 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
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Health and Social Care
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
Yes2 people think so
No1 person thinks not
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