Sentences with phrase «introducing minimum alcohol pricing»

Introducing minimum alcohol pricing would help create «a more orderly, content and healthy society»,... More

The Welsh Conservatives are supporting moves to introduce minimum alcohol pricing in Wales.

Ministers and senior government officials held dozens of meetings with the drinks industry before reversing plans to introduce minimum alcohol pricing despite compelling medical evidence it would save thousands of lives, it has emerged.

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Introduces a minimum pricing on alcohol.

UK: Government drops minimum unit pricing The UK Coalition Government has officially abandoned plans to introduce minimum unit pricing for alcohol in England and Wales.

Scotland is set to introduce minimum unit pricing, having twice overcome legal challenges from the alcohol industry.

The long - awaited alcohol strategy is also set to introduce minimum pricing, probably at 40p a unit, in a move which will be enthusiastically welcomed by health campaigners.

It is disappointing that five years have been wasted on a fruitless exercise when the government could have been making real progress by delivering on its commitments to introduce evidence based policies such as minimum unit pricing for alcohol.

The prime minister showed signs of movement where he had previously refused to acknowledge the benefits of introducing minimum pricing per unit on alcohol.

In other news, the government announced it would introduce a minimum price per unit of alcohol.

An independent panel has published a report today supporting the Welsh Government's proposal to introduce minimum unit pricing for alcohol.

Plaid also promises to introduce a 50p minimum price per unit for alcohol, which the coalition Government retreated from enacting.

David Cameron made a personal pledge in March 2012 that minimum alcohol pricing would be introduced

David Cameron made a personal pledge in March 2012 that minimum alcohol pricing would be introduced claiming that being in government «was not always about doing the popular thing.

The Prime Minister said that proposals by ten local councils in Greater Manchester to introduce the minimum pricing per unit of alcohol in their area would be looked at «very sympathetically».

SCOTLAND will become the first country to introduce minimum unit pricing for alcohol after its government won a legal battle last week.

The recent St. Patrick's Day publicity, most of which seemed to involve drinking, put me in the frame of mind to notice this development from the home of St. Andrew, where the Scottish government has introduced a bill that would fix mandatory minimum prices for alcohol.