To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much her Department spent on each project aimed at the prevention of alcohol abuse in each of the last 10 years. (105640)

The Department has implemented a number of projects aimed at preventing alcohol misuse and tackling alcohol related harm over the last 10 years.

In November 2006, the Department, jointly with the Home Office, launched the ‘Know Your Limits’ campaign. The Department will contribute £1.7 million in 2006-07. The campaign seeks to discourage binge drinking by young adults.

In October 2006, the Department announced the Identification and Brief advice trailblazers, which are a series of demonstration projects on preventive interventions in health and criminal justice settings for people who are drinking at hazardous and harmful levels.

The Department is investing £3.2 million in this project over 2006-08. The Department has also issued Section 64 funding to various projects over the last 10 years run by organisations who tackle alcohol related harm, at least some of this funding being spent on projects aimed at prevention. The total cost was £4.8 million, £4.4 million of this money went to core funding of Alcohol Concern. In addition, Alcohol Concern projects were supported as follows:

Other organisations that received funding

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many people have sought support from the NHS for alcohol addiction in each year since 1997. (110318)

This information is not held centrally. The Alcohol Needs Assessment Research Project (ANARP) published in November 2005 provided the first ever comprehensive picture of alcohol related needs and availability of treatment in England.

ANARP found that in England 1.1 million people are alcohol dependent and estimated that 63,000 access alcohol treatment each year.

It would not be expected that all those who are dependent on alcohol access treatment during any one year. This is discussed further in the ANARP.