Alcoholic Drinks: Misuse

Mr. Ruffley
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how much additional funding has been made available to each police force specifically to tackle binge drinking and alcohol misuse in each year since the Licensing Act 2003 came into force.

Mr. Coaker
The Licensing Act 2003 came into force 24 November 2005. Since that time over £5.3 million has been made available to the police to tackle alcohol misuse.

Home Office alcohol enforcement campaigns are focused at the police basic command unit level. The allocation of funding from campaigns is based on a formal bid process and the number of operations conducted in any given campaign.