Alcohol related deaths in England and Wales

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 how many alcohol related deaths there are in England and Wales in the most recent year.

We are responsible for producing Alcohol Related Deaths for the UK with key findings published annually in the following statistical bulletin:

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthandsocialcare/causesofdeath/bulletins/alcoholrelateddeathsintheunitedkingdom/registeredin2014

This includes the number of deaths in regions in England. The most recent data is for 2014, which covers the period 1994-2014.

We do not publish this data at the Parliamentary Constituency level. Special extracts and tabulations of mortality data for 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 we consider that s.21(1) applies to this request and the information does not have to be supplied under the terms of the Freedom of Information Act. s.21(1) is an absolute exemption and no consideration of the public interest test needs to be applied.