Minimum Pricing on Alcohol backed by Commons Health Committee

The SCPO has sent this this update on the minim pircing for alcohol campaign.

The Commons Health Committee published a report following their inquiry into Alcohol in England and came out strongly in favour of minimum pricing, arguing that evidence shows that a rise in the price of alcohol was the most effective way of reducing consumption. It also attacked the strategies anmd responses of successive Governments in tackkling the proble as ranging "from non-existent to ineffectual".