Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the evaluation published on 7 June 2022 by Public Health Scotland of Minimum Unit Pricing in Scotland on people who are drinking at harmful levels, which found that alcohol specific deaths fell by 13.4 per cent and hospitalisations by 4.1 per cent.

Legislative competence for alcohol pricing policy is devolved. A formal assessment has not been carried out, however we are following developments on alcohol policies in other nations closely to see what works.