In 2021–22, the amount individual local authorities reported spending on alcohol treatment varied from £4,000 per 100,000 people to over £1 million, with median spending of £313,000. Three local authorities reported spending £0 on alcohol treatment services.45 In her independent review Dame Carol did not disaggregate local authority spending on drugs and alcohol because of a lack of robustness in the reported expenditure data. So the reported spending, while the only figures available, will mask actual spending on alcohol treatment services.46 However, poor data notwithstanding, spending will vary according to local priorities in public health and is a decision for the local authority.