questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment she has made of the implications for her policies of the finding on p.134 of the Chief Medical Officer’s annual report, published on 10 November 2023, that deaths due to alcohol-related liver disease increased 87% between 2001 and 2021.
answerText: The Department has an existing agenda to tackle alcohol harms, including alcohol-related liver disease (ARLD). Continued alcohol consumption is the main risk for dying of ARLD. However, damage to a person’s liver can be effectively halted if it is identif...
heading: Liver Diseases: Death