Charles Walker
Chair, Procedure Committee, Chair, Procedure Committee
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people under 18 years of age have been referred to addiction treatment services in each of the last five years.
Jane Ellison
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health
The following table shows the numbers of under 18s receiving treatment for substance misuse problems in England for the last five years.
2009-10 | 2010-11 | 2011-12 | 2012-13 | 2013-14 |
23,528 | 21,955 | 20,688 | 20,032 | 19,126 |
Source: The National Drug Treatment Monitoring System (NDTMS)
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