Alcoholic Drinks: Minimum Prices

(asked on 20th December 2018) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what criteria he will use to decide whether to include a minimum unit pricing for alcohol in the new joint alcohol strategy.


Answered by
Victoria Atkins Portrait
Victoria Atkins
Secretary of State for Health and Social Care
This question was answered on 11th January 2019

The introduction of minimum unit pricing in England remains under review pending the impact of its implementation in Scotland.

Home Office ministers have held no meetings with representatives of the alcohol industry and public health advocates to discuss minimum unit pricing for alcohol. However, Home Office officials have engaged throughout 2018 with a range of stakeholders as part of our alcohol policy work , including the health sector, academics, the voluntary sector and representatives of the alcohol industry and the licensed trade.

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