Not exact matches
Commenting on the findings of this report, IAS Chief Executive Katherine Brown said: «The desire to support pubs has often been used as a reason to resist
policies to reduce
alcohol - related harm, including minimum unit
pricing, increasing
alcohol taxes and stricter drink - drive laws.
These findings highlight divisions in the
alcohol industry, with several major multinational producers actively opposing
policies such as minimum unit
pricing (MUP), which would increase the
price of the cheapest products sold in shops and supermarkets.
Many fail to realise that the UK has driven multiple progressive
policies aimed at improving the health of the population, whether plain packaging for cigarettes, minimum
pricing units for
alcohol, or the most recent sugar tax.
Ministers argue the minimum
price policy would cut crime by 50,000 a year and result in 9,000 fewer
alcohol - related deaths over the next ten years.
«We call on the Government to better support our emergency services and implement
policies to ease this burden, such as minimum unit
pricing for
alcohol.
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.
Evidence shows that the most effective
policies to reduce
alcohol harms, including harms to others, are: - Raising the
price of the cheapest
alcohol, through taxation and minimum unit
pricing - Regulating the density of outlets that can serve
alcohol and restricting the permitted hours of sale - drink driving laws, including a lower legal blood
alcohol limit and random roadside breath tests - Screening and brief advice for people who are at risk of drinking to a level that is harmful to themselves and others However, the most effective approach is a comprehensive, multi-sectorial set of measures that work together to reduce levels of harmful drinking.
The
policy of minimum
alcohol price per unit has the potential to become one of these devices.
ENDS Notes to Editors UK
Alcohol duty context For a short video summary of the issues around alcohol pricing, please visit: https://vimeo.com/191959217 Following heavy lobbying from the alcohol industry, the last four Budgets have seen real terms cuts in alcohol duty Alcohol is 60 % more affordable than it was in 1980 — the alcohol duty escalator, introduced in 2008, which ensured that duty rose above inflation, helped mitigate this trend, but this progress has reversed since the duty escalator was scrapped in 2013 In real terms, spirits duty has halved, and wine duty fallen by a quarter since 1978 - 9 The Government estimates suggest that the duty cuts since 2013 will cost the Exchequer # 2.9 billion over four years The University of Sheffield estimated that an additional 6,500 people would be hospitalised each year as a result of the alcohol duty cuts in 2015 The report The report was peer reviewed by academic experts the fields of economics, public health and public policy prior to publi
Alcohol duty context For a short video summary of the issues around
alcohol pricing, please visit: https://vimeo.com/191959217 Following heavy lobbying from the alcohol industry, the last four Budgets have seen real terms cuts in alcohol duty Alcohol is 60 % more affordable than it was in 1980 — the alcohol duty escalator, introduced in 2008, which ensured that duty rose above inflation, helped mitigate this trend, but this progress has reversed since the duty escalator was scrapped in 2013 In real terms, spirits duty has halved, and wine duty fallen by a quarter since 1978 - 9 The Government estimates suggest that the duty cuts since 2013 will cost the Exchequer # 2.9 billion over four years The University of Sheffield estimated that an additional 6,500 people would be hospitalised each year as a result of the alcohol duty cuts in 2015 The report The report was peer reviewed by academic experts the fields of economics, public health and public policy prior to publi
alcohol pricing, please visit: https://vimeo.com/191959217 Following heavy lobbying from the
alcohol industry, the last four Budgets have seen real terms cuts in alcohol duty Alcohol is 60 % more affordable than it was in 1980 — the alcohol duty escalator, introduced in 2008, which ensured that duty rose above inflation, helped mitigate this trend, but this progress has reversed since the duty escalator was scrapped in 2013 In real terms, spirits duty has halved, and wine duty fallen by a quarter since 1978 - 9 The Government estimates suggest that the duty cuts since 2013 will cost the Exchequer # 2.9 billion over four years The University of Sheffield estimated that an additional 6,500 people would be hospitalised each year as a result of the alcohol duty cuts in 2015 The report The report was peer reviewed by academic experts the fields of economics, public health and public policy prior to publi
alcohol industry, the last four Budgets have seen real terms cuts in
alcohol duty Alcohol is 60 % more affordable than it was in 1980 — the alcohol duty escalator, introduced in 2008, which ensured that duty rose above inflation, helped mitigate this trend, but this progress has reversed since the duty escalator was scrapped in 2013 In real terms, spirits duty has halved, and wine duty fallen by a quarter since 1978 - 9 The Government estimates suggest that the duty cuts since 2013 will cost the Exchequer # 2.9 billion over four years The University of Sheffield estimated that an additional 6,500 people would be hospitalised each year as a result of the alcohol duty cuts in 2015 The report The report was peer reviewed by academic experts the fields of economics, public health and public policy prior to publi
alcohol duty
Alcohol is 60 % more affordable than it was in 1980 — the alcohol duty escalator, introduced in 2008, which ensured that duty rose above inflation, helped mitigate this trend, but this progress has reversed since the duty escalator was scrapped in 2013 In real terms, spirits duty has halved, and wine duty fallen by a quarter since 1978 - 9 The Government estimates suggest that the duty cuts since 2013 will cost the Exchequer # 2.9 billion over four years The University of Sheffield estimated that an additional 6,500 people would be hospitalised each year as a result of the alcohol duty cuts in 2015 The report The report was peer reviewed by academic experts the fields of economics, public health and public policy prior to publi
Alcohol is 60 % more affordable than it was in 1980 — the
alcohol duty escalator, introduced in 2008, which ensured that duty rose above inflation, helped mitigate this trend, but this progress has reversed since the duty escalator was scrapped in 2013 In real terms, spirits duty has halved, and wine duty fallen by a quarter since 1978 - 9 The Government estimates suggest that the duty cuts since 2013 will cost the Exchequer # 2.9 billion over four years The University of Sheffield estimated that an additional 6,500 people would be hospitalised each year as a result of the alcohol duty cuts in 2015 The report The report was peer reviewed by academic experts the fields of economics, public health and public policy prior to publi
alcohol duty escalator, introduced in 2008, which ensured that duty rose above inflation, helped mitigate this trend, but this progress has reversed since the duty escalator was scrapped in 2013 In real terms, spirits duty has halved, and wine duty fallen by a quarter since 1978 - 9 The Government estimates suggest that the duty cuts since 2013 will cost the Exchequer # 2.9 billion over four years The University of Sheffield estimated that an additional 6,500 people would be hospitalised each year as a result of the
alcohol duty cuts in 2015 The report The report was peer reviewed by academic experts the fields of economics, public health and public policy prior to publi
alcohol duty cuts in 2015 The report The report was peer reviewed by academic experts the fields of economics, public health and public
policy prior to publication.
When you realise this then
policies as diverse as tax cuts for the rich, minimum
alcohol pricing and HS2 fit into a coherant whole.
(Many
alcohol retailers say that it wouldn't, and support a national
pricing policy.)
Cluster membership was then related to harm measures, such as
alcohol dependence and self - rated health, and three
policy - relevant variables: a liking for
alcohol advertisements,
price paid for
alcohol, and time of its purchase.
A new study of liver patients by the University of Southampton shows that a Minimum Unit
Price (MUP)
policy for
alcohol is exquisitely targeted towards the heaviest drinkers with cirrhosis.
Professor Nick Sheron, from the University of Southampton, comments: «Setting a Minimum Unit
Price for
alcohol is an almost perfect
alcohol policy because it targets cheap booze bought by very heavy drinkers and leaves moderate drinkers completely unaffected.
He has recently been involved in matters raising a wide variety of EU law issues, including the implementation of the common agricultural
policy; the compatibility with EU law of a residency requirement for entitlement to tuition fee support, a minimum
price for
alcohol, and plain - packaging for tobacco products; the designation of special areas of conservation under the Habitats Directive; and the compatibility of religious further education colleges with the Equal Treatment Directive.
If you have had
alcohol related problems, the key to applying for and securing a fairly
priced life insurance
policy is to know which company will treat you the most favorably based on your answers to the questions above.
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Taxation and
price controls are among the most effective
policy interventions to reduce harm from sugary drinks and from
alcohol.»
Store committees have developed a range of relevant store
policies which have been documented in a regularly updated Stores Procedures Manual - for example, «book up» (or credit) is limited to aged pensioners and kept to $ 50.00 per person;
alcohol sales are restricted to certain hours and can limits strictly enforced; healthy foods are
priced at cost recovery only; and store operational and management systems have been improved.