Growing Support
Scotland
Chief Medical Officer for Scotland
Scottish Police Service
Association for the Directors of Social Work
Directors of Public Health
Church of Scotland
UK
Chief Medical Officer for England
Recommended a minimum price of 50p per unit of alcohol in his Annual Report 2008.
http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Publicationsandstatistics/Publications/AnnualReports/DH_096206
NICE – The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence
Its guidance on the prevention and early identification of alcohol-use disorders in adults and adolescents concludes that there is sufficient evidence to justify the introduction of a minimum price per unit.
House of Commons Health Committee
An extensive inquiry looking at the impact of alcohol on health and the NHS in England. The report recommends that the UK Government introduce minimum pricing for alcohol.
House of Commons Home Affairs Select Committee Inquiry Report on Policing in the 21st Century
The inquiry concluded that the easy availability of cheap alcohol fuels crime and disorder in the UK. A minimum pricing regime for alcohol was recommended to prevent below-cost selling of alcohol in supermarkets.
Welsh Assembly Government
Working Together to Reduce Harm: The Substance Misuse Strategy for Wales 2008 - 2018
The Church of England
The Church has expressed support for minimum pricing and other measures to restrict the availability of alcohol as recommended in the Health Committee’s report on alcohol. In a statement the Church said: “The challenge to drink responsibly applies to every individual. But it is essential that major economic and cultural influences upon individual drinking should be clearly recognised, their harmful effects limited as far as practical, and positive influences mobilised to discourage damaging and anti-social behaviour.”
International
World Health Organisation – A global strategy to reduce harmful alcohol use
A minimum unit price for alcohol is one of a number of evidence-based strategies recommended in a a global strategy to reduce the substantial burden of harm due to alcohol worldwide. The strategy was adopted by consensus at the World Health Assembly in Geneva in May 2010.
World Health Organisation, Europe
Handbook for action to reduce alcohol-related harm published in September 2009 lists the establishment of a minimum price per gram of alcohol as an option for action.
Australia: The healthiest country by 2020
Report prepared by the Preventative Health Taskforce recommends considering means of regulating minimum price as one of a range of interventions to reduce the prevalence of harmful drinking by all Australians.
