with the most effective and cost-effective approach being to tackle the increasing affordability of alcohol through minimum unit pricing (MUP) and excise duties. No single policy will be enough to ...

Minimum Unit Pricing (MUP) only affects the price of the cheapest alcohol. A 50p MUP (as currently implemented in Wales) corresponds to £1.14 for a standard pint of beer, or £4.69 for a bottle of wine ...

The commitment in the 2019 manifesto to: "Introduce minimum unit pricing for alcohol, taking note of the impact of the policy in Scotland". The cost of living crisis. The recent report by Public ...

While laws prohibit using loyalty card points to purchase alcohol, further regulations are planned for their use to buy ...

Heavy drinking contributes to a strain on the NHS and society as a whole. But a new minimum unit pricing policy could be a solution. Off It’s no secret that too much alcohol can have painful ...

Mr Wells said DUP opposition to minimum unit alcohol pricing, which was introduced in Scotland in 2018 and in the Republic in 2022, was a result of lobbying from the drinks industry, along with ...

New rules on the sale of alcohol are going to have a big impact on prices when they come into effect this week. For some products, it will mean prices rise. For some it won’t. But, as we will ...

The minimum unit price is 50p in Wales, while the Republic’s minimum pricing is based on a rate of 10 cent per gram of alcohol. This means that a ‘standard drink’ in the Republic (10g of ...