Alcohol-related Crime
Home Department
Written answers and statements, 8 November 2006
Malcolm Moss (Shadow Minister (Culture, Media & Sport), Culture, Media & Sport; North East Cambridgeshire, Conservative)
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what estimate he has made of the total cost of tackling alcohol-related crime in England and Wales in the last 12 months.
Vernon Coaker (Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Home Office; Gedling, Labour)
The Home Office cannot estimate the total cost of tackling alcohol-related crime in England and Wales in the last 12 months because, in addition to national campaigns, local police, trading standards and Government Offices have been carrying out their own local initiatives. To collate that information would involve disproportionate cost.