Question follow-through · 17439
Alcoholism and Drugs: Death
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to reduce death rates from (a) alcohol, (b) drugs and (c) suicide in (a) the North and (b) coastal regions.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 2 Dec 2024
- Target answer date
- 4 Dec 2024
- Answer
- 9 Dec 2024 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
2 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to reduce death rates from (a) alcohol, (b) drugs and (c) suicide in (a) the North and (b) coastal regions.
4 Dec 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
9 Dec 2024
Answer published
A vital part of delivering the Health Mission shift to prevention will be action to reduce the number of deaths due to alcohol and drug use, especially in deprived areas. In England, rates of drug poisoning and drug misuse deaths have a marked north-south...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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