Alcohol price law ’important tool’ in tackling drinking
Echoing the findings of the assembly’s health committee last week, the minister said minimum pricing was “not a silver bullet”
but would be “a major new and important tool in our approach to reducing alcohol consumption”.
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Assembly members have been urged to back minimum unit pricing for alcohol as a “major new and important tool” in tackling harmful drinking in Wales.
” he said. that By introducing a minimum price, we can make a difference – as we have done with the smoking
ban, which demonstrated our determination to create a different future for the people of Wales,
“That’s why we are supporting people throughout Wales to develop a healthier relationship with alcohol,
through our Substance Misuse Strategy, and end the sad spectre of people dying from drink.”
AMs will decide later whether the Welsh Government’s Public Health (Minimum Price for Alcohol) (Wales) Bill should pass its first stage
and go on to detailed consideration by assembly committees.
” Mr Gething said. that Wales, like so many other western countries, has a problem with cheap, strong, readily-available alcohol,
But the minister warned minimum pricing would not work “in isolation”.
A law allowing a minimum unit price for alcohol was passed in Scotland in 2012 and will be introduced later this year at a level of 50p per unit.
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