Consultation Response

This response sets out evidence informed views in relation to the whisky sector in Scotland andhow it interacts with alcohol harms, and how the whisky and wider alcohol industry interactswith policy designed to reduce harms. In summary: Read our full response using the link below.

We welcome this opportunity to contribute to the Public Service Reform Committee’s pre-budget scrutiny. Our response focuses on the questions where alcohol harm is directly relevant to the Committee’s inquiry: the achievability of savings targets, the definition of frontline services, the outcomes that reform should pursue, the role of prevention and preventative budgeting, and the […]

Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, May 2026 SHAAP welcomes this consultation. While it covers a wide range of matters relating to children’s experiences online, our response is confined to an area we consider to be a notable omission from the current proposals: the exposure of children and young people to digital alcohol marketing. The […]

SHAAP welcomes this evaluation and the opportunity to provide evidence from a public health perspective. It is essential that the evaluation gives full and equal weight to the public health objectives of the reforms, alongside the economic and administrative considerations that will be well represented in industry submissions. The move to a strength-based duty system […]