Kevin Barron MP, Chairman of the Health Select Committee opened a debate in the Commons on the Committee's recent report on alcohol. Gillian Merron, Minister of State, at the Health Department, responded to the debate.
- Video and Audio: Debate: Alcohol
- Commons Hansard: Debate: Alcohol
- Health Committee
- Report: Alcohol
- Topical Issues: Alcoholism
Alcohol report
The main areas covered in the report and the subsequent Commons debate were:
- history of alcohol consumption
- impact of alcohol on health, the NHS and society as a whole, including the costs of crime and loss of work
- analysis of the Government's alcohol strategy
- NHS policies on prevention and treatment
- education and information policies
- marketing of alcohol, pubs and licensing
- off-licence sales, particularly in supermarkets
- price of alcohol and arguments for minimum pricing and rises in alcohol duty
- proposals for a new alcohol strategy