Jan. 12 2023
Source Page: Revised guidance issued under section 182 of Licensing Act 2003Found: naming, packing or promotion of alcoholic drinks may contribute to alcohol rel ated harms.
Jan. 12 2023
Source Page: Revised guidance issued under section 182 of Licensing Act 2003Found: naming, packing or promotion of alcoholic drinks may contribute to alcohol related harms.
Found: 10 2.3 Public health policy 11 Calorie labelling of alcoholic drinks 12 Public health guidance
Found: • Drug off ences (Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 ) If the substance used is a controlled drug under the
Asked by: Dan Carden (Labour - Liverpool, Walton)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 2nd November 2022 to Question 72439 on Alcoholic Drinks: Misuse, what steps the Department has taken to implement the effective policies mentioned in Public Health England's evidence review: The Public Health Burden of Alcohol and the Effectiveness and Cost-Effectiveness of Alcohol Control Policies, published in 2016, to reduce the public health burden of alcohol.
Answered by Neil O'Brien
Public Health England’s evidence review recommended a range of evidence-based policies which could be effective at reducing alcohol harm, including those related to taxation, regulating marketing and clinical interventions.
The Government is reforming alcohol duty to tax all alcohol according to strength, which will be implemented from 1 August 2023. The Government is currently reviewing how online advertising is regulated in the United Kingdom, including age-restricted or potentially harmful content, such as alcohol advertising. The consultation closed on 8 June 2022 and a response will be issued in due course.
Local authorities and the National Health Service are responsible for the provision of high-quality services to prevent, mitigate and treat alcohol-related health harm. This includes the identification of people at risk and brief advice, an alcohol risk assessment in the NHS Health Check and specialist services for dependent drinkers. Information and brief advice is also included at new general practitioner registrations and within the standard contract for secondary care. Through the drugs strategy, the Government is investing £532 million into local authority commissioned substance misuse treatment services in England, which include treatment for both drug and alcohol addiction.
Asked by: Barry Sheerman (Labour (Co-op) - Huddersfield)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 2nd November 2022 to Question 72439 on Alcoholic Drinks: Misuse, for what reason his Department has not made a specific assessment on the independent review of alcohol harms; and whether he intends to meet with Alcohol Change UK when his Department conducts an independent review of alcohol harms.
Answered by Neil O'Brien
The Government is addressing alcohol-related harms through commitments in the ‘Advancing our health: prevention in the 2020s’ green paper, the NHS Long Term Plan, improvements to the substance misuse treatment system through the drugs strategy ‘From harm to hope: A 10-year drugs plan to cut crime and save lives’ and action to reduce alcohol-related crime.
We regularly engage with stakeholders from the third sector, including Alcohol Change UK, which is a member of the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities’ Alcohol Advisory Group. The Group meets quarterly and informs the approach to the Department’s work on reducing alcohol-related harms.
Government Response Nov. 08 2022
Inquiry: Licensing Act 2003 - follow-upFound: These deaths were driven by alcoholic-liver disease and have been linked to increased
Nov. 08 2022
Source Page: The government response to the report from the House of Lords Select Committee on the Licensing Act 2003Found: www.gov.uk/Government/publications Any enquiries regarding this publication should be sent to us at: Drugs
Nov. 08 2022
Source Page: The government response to the report from the House of Lords Select Committee on the Licensing Act 2003Found: www.gov.uk/Government/publications Any enquiries regarding this publication should be sent to us at: Drugs
Nov. 08 2022
Source Page: The government response to the report from the House of Lords Select Committee on the Licensing Act 2003Found: local strategy.fl 84 In oral evidence Anna Paige, the Head of Drugs and Alcohol Unit/Drugs and Firearms