Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment his Department has made of the effect of minimum unit pricing of alcohol on the number of cancer deaths.
The Government has made no assessment of the potential effect of minimum unit pricing (MUP) of alcohol on reducing the incidence of cancer or the number of cancer deaths. MUP and its effects will continue to remain under review pending the impact of its implementation in Scotland.