Many, including several Members of this House, have expressed concern about the contribution of under age drinking to the problem of public disorder. Establishing the incidence of under age drinking and associated public disorder in an empirically sound fashion is a very difficult task as statistics in relation to non-headline crime are not usually disaggregated according to the age of the offender. Nevertheless, it must be acknowledged that under age drinking undoubtedly contributes to the problem, although I do not wish to overstate this contribution in the context of the behaviour of young adults.