Health Select Committee

Protz: Statistics reveal we can handle our drink

29-Jun-2012 By Roger Protz

The British and alcohol: what images spring to mind? Young people staggering around city centres on Saturday nights, fighting or falling down, and making pavement pizzas in the streets. Some of them engaged in fisticuffs with the Old Bill or ending up...

'Brewing chiefs urge end to beer tax regime'

19-Mar-2010

Forty leading bosses in the brewing and pub industry have called on the Government to recognise the key role played by pubs in their local...

Government accused of 'pussyfooting' around minimum pricing

10-Mar-2010 By James Wilmore

The government has been accused of "pussyfooting" around the issue of minimum pricing as it faced renewed pressure to bring in the measure. MPs...

Drinks producers slam minimum price proposals

08-Jan-2010 By Ewan Turney

Drinks producers have hit out at the Health Select Committee's proposals to introduce a minimum price per unit on alcohol. The report on alcohol...

Supermarkets reject claim they are "destroying" pubs

16-Oct-2009 By James Wilmore

Three of the UK's leading supermarket chains have rejected the idea that off-trade deals on alcohol are "destroying the traditional pub"....

MPs urged to support level playing field on smoking

23-Jan-2006

MPs are being urged to support clear legislation on smoke-free workplaces and to oppose any exemption for private members clubs in the forthcoming...