Sentences with phrase «introduce minimum pricing»

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».

«With deaths from liver disease rapidly rising and teenagers now presenting with advanced liver failure, the Government has a duty to realise its commitment to introduce minimum pricing.»

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.

Introduces a minimum pricing on 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.

It also wanted to introduce a minimum price per square foot of $ 346.

Last week, at a conference organised by the French government, six EU countries discussed the possibility of introducing a minimum price to pollute.

A price floor easily could be enforced by introducing a minimum price in allowance auctions.

In fact, as my son pointed out to me, this is the same mechanism that one sees on eBay, where a seller can introduce a minimum price for bids that will be considered.

«Around the world, pricing systems are being built up — from China to California — and Europe can fix its emissions trading by introducing a minimum price.

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Specific policies include encouraging job creation and innovation in the new energy economy; improving the fairness of employment standards (including re-establishing the National Minimum Wage; reversing «tax giveaways» to corporations; introducing and maintaining balanced budgets; protecting Canadians from «price gouging» by businesses; implementing income stabilization programs for farmers; promoting long - term economic and environmental sustainability of marine and forestry resources; and re-investing in education, skills training and apprenticeships to help Canadians succeed in the economy.

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

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.

A unit pricing code has been introduced and is mandatory for grocery retailers with more than 1,000 square metres of floor space who sell a minimum range of food - based grocery items.

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

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

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.

Johnson's introduced 33 bills that have passed the Council, mostly related to LGBT issues, affordable housing and health, including one law that increased the minimum price of a pack of cigarettes in the city from $ 10.50 to $ 13.

The Scottish parliament recently introduced a scheme to fix minimum prices at 45p a unit.

Officials in Whitehall watched the scheme closely, particularly for its status under EU law, which only allows minimum pricing to be introduced where there is a major health problem.

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.

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.

«Harmful drinkers would be affected 200 times more than low risk drinkers if a Minimum Unit Price was introduced.»

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

I know readers say that now, that they would not try a new debut author at $ 2.99 but this is because there has been ebooks introduced at $ 0.99 in the first place by Amazon for years;) but if $ 2.99 was the absolute minimum available from the beginning readers would buy a book at that price because it would be considered the «entry price».

In absolute terms, if Amazon never introduced $ 0.99 but a higher minimum price, we would see the same sales that $ 0.99 produces at a higher prices because customers would have never had experienced $ 0.99 and that «higher» price would be sees and perceived as the barrel - scratch price for ebooks.

The UK introduced a carbon price floor in 2012 which put a minimum price on emissions.

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.