You asked
How many alcohol related deaths were there in England and Wales in the most recent calendar year for which you have data? Please could you state which year this is for? Please could you break the number of deaths down to individual Parliamentary constituencies?
We said
Thank you for your query regarding alcohol related death statistics.
The number of alcohol-related deaths registered in the UK each year by sex, age, country and region are available from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) release, Alcohol related deaths in the United Kingdom. This release is available on the ONS website at http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/subnational-health4/alcohol-related-deaths-in-the-united-kingdom/index.html.
Special extracts and tabulations of mortality data, including breakdowns by parliamentary constituencies in England and Wales, are available to order (subject to legal frameworks, disclosure control, resources and agreements of costs, where appropriate). Such enquiries should be made to: mortality@ons.gov.uk. We recommend that you contact the Mortality Analysis team directly in order to discuss your data requirements in more detail.
As this information is already available to you via this route ONS considers that S21(1) applies to this request and the information does not have to be supplied under the terms of the Freedom of Information Act. S21(1) is an absolute exemption and no consideration of the public interest test needs to be applied.