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News & updates Feb 2012: MPs debate alcohol policy; Scotland’s 45 minimum pricing impact revised

Friday, February 10, 2012

Alcohol strategy gets Westminster debate A Westminster debate on alcohol policy and the forthcoming strategy has been highlighted by Alcohol Concern – see part 1 and part 2 of the debate which includes statements from MPs across the parties. Public health Minister Anne Milton said the forthcoming national strategy included ambition to “remove a significant number of units of alcohol from the UK market through changes in how alcohol is produced and sold”. See a Morning Advertiser (MA) report or the the Daily Mail's take

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ASDA under fire for selling Budweiser for under 50p per bottle

Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Supermarket giant ASDA hit the news after launching a new deal offering 24 bottles of Budweiser for £11 – around 46 pence a bottle or 15 pence per unit. ASDA are part of the Government's Responsibility Deal having signed up to pledges on alcohol, including on its advertising and marketing.

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News and updates April 2011: Alcohol and cancer risk; move to restrict advertising; alcohol’s cost to Wales; Royal Wedding licensing hours

Monday, April 11, 2011

Increased cancer risk with alcohol consumption highlighted Research published in the BMJ has highlighted that around 10% of all cancers in men and 3% in women are attributable to alcohol consumption.

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Psychiatrists Support MP’s Call To Limit Exposure Of Children To Alcohol Advertising, UK

Thursday, March 31, 2011

The Royal College of Psychiatrists has praised a private member’s bill put forward in parliament today by Dr Sarah Wollaston, MP for Totnes. Dr Wollaston will put forward proposals to limit the exposure of children and young people to alcohol advertising as a Ten Minute Rule Motion…

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MP Calls For New Measures To Protect Children From Alcohol Advertising

Friday, March 25, 2011

Next week, Sarah Wollaston MP will put forward a private member’s bill urging the government to adopt a new approach to protect UK children from alcohol advertising. In an editorial published on bmj.com today, Professor Gerard Hastings and Dr Nick Sheron set out why we urgently need to tackle the excessive drinking of our young people and their massive exposure to alcohol advertising…

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