HC Deb 25 January 1990 vol 165 c881W
12. Mr. Hardy

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what proportion of criminal offences by young adults are drink-related.

Mr. John Patten

A total of 9 per cent. of young adults (those between 17 and 20) convicted in 1988, the latest year for which figures are available were convicted of drunkeness or drink-driving offences. No reliable estimate can be made of the extent to which the offences for the remaining 91 per cent. convicted were alcohol related.