The Scottish Parliament’s Health and Sport Committee agreed that the country’s alcohol problem must be addressed as it reviews the latest stage of the Alcohol Bill, but is divided on whether minimum pricing should be adopted as key measure - BBC report here.
As the committee considered the findings of the Stage 1 report, the long-running divisions over the minimum pricing proposals remain. Following recent pressure for the SNP to identify the proposed minimum price, the Committee recommended the Government amends the alcohol report at Stage 2 to include the proposed price.
The report also recommended a legal limit on the level of caffeine allowed in alcoholic drinks. This would be likely to result in prohibiting the production of the infamous Buckfast, a drink commonly linked to anti-social behaviour in Scotland.
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