HC Deb 13 April 1989 vol 150 cc712-3W
7. Mr. Atkinson

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what his estimate is of the percentage of crimes by under-21-year-olds which are drink-related.

Mr. John Patten

Of the people under 21 convicted in 1987, the latest year for which full figures are available. 8 per cent. were convicted of drunkenness or drink-driving offences. No reliable estimate can be made of the extent to which the offences of which the remaining 92 per cent. convicted were alcohol related.