Health written question – answered at on 1 June 2009.
John Cummings
Labour, Easington
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what estimate he has made of the number of people in Easington Constituency who received treatment for drug misuse in each of the last three years.
Dawn Primarolo
Minister of State (Department of Health) (Public Health)
The following table shows the estimated number of people in treatment in Easington for the last three years in which data are available.
| Number | |
| 2006-07 | |
| Easington adults | 590 |
| Easington young people | 51 |
| 2007-08 | |
| Easington adults | 553 |
| Easington young people | 49 |
| 2008-09 | |
| Easington adults | 425 |
| Easington young people | 60 |
| Notes: 1. Estimated figures are provided for the three year period 2006-07 to 2008-09 2. Estimated figures have been provided by County Durham Drug and Alcohol Action Team and adults are defined as 18 or over, young people are under 18. | |
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tessa gray
Posted on 3 Jun 2009 1:09 pm (Report this annotation)
I wish John Cummings would stop asking questions that he could easily obtain the answers to elsewhere. If there is some point to his questions he never seems to make it.