PUBWATCH AND PREVENTING DRINK-RELATED INCIDENTS

Early day motion 1136, tabled 6 May 2004 by Kerry Pollard (Labour). Signed by 25 members.

That this House welcomes the success of the Pubwatch scheme in St Albans, where 36 of the 46 pubs in the city centre are members; notes that St Albans has the highest number of drinking establishments per head of the population in Europe with a large number of younger people coming into the town at weekends; congratulates the Hertfordshire Constabulary and the Pubwatch team for their success in overseeing a 40 per cent. decrease in the number of drink-related incidents in the past 15 months; notes that alcohol-related crime has shown an increase in other parts of the country in the same period; and calls on other towns and cities to follow St Albans' lead and introduce similar pubwatch schemes to reduce the number of drink-related incidents nationally.

Signatures by party: Labour 22, DUP 1, Liberal Democrat 1, UUP 1.