Alcohol pricing: Findings research bulettins; Commons pricing debates

Following the recent below cost ban and Home Office publication of the likely pricing impacts, the drug and alcohol Bank has released a series of bulletins:

• UK government assesses the likely impacts of alcohol price rises
• How alcohol pricing might affect the health of the British population
• Higher prices and taxes on alcohol help prevent crime
• Economic impacts of alcohol pricing policy options in the UK
• Will the poor be most affected by an end to cheap alcohol?

Ministers discuss...

The issue of minimum pricing and alcohol taxation was also a long subject of debate in the commons last month. The Prime Minister also hinted that mandatory labelling was an unlikely prospect, but instead favoured "...the tax system to deal with problem drinks, which we are looking at, and at tougher minimum pricing for alcohol."

Comments

[D Collins]

can,t the government see that the problem we have with alcohol is not the price it,s how it,s sold and who sells it it,s time they looked in to the super markets and the profit margin they make on it.allways a lost leader,and they dont know where it goes to when it leaves the shop and do they care, they are obviously not sticking to codes set out in the licencing act on the promotion of alcohol as the pubs do at least the pubs have control they have the rights to refuse to serve any one they think has had to much and thats normaly becauce they,ve preloaded from the supermarkets before they hit the streets or any responsible pub and who gets the blame the for the binge drinkers the landlords
It,s time to go back to the old days sell alcohol in the pubs and the old stile off licenses not the supermarkets and the potrol stations