ALCOHOL PRICING

Early day motion 1765, tabled 29 June 2009 by Keith Vaz (Labour). Signed by 34 members.

That this House welcomes the new Home Office advertising campaign which includes a video which confronts young people with the reality of their drunken behaviour; notes that this is the centrepiece of the Home Office's Know Your Limits campaign; further supports the Home Office's partnership with Channel 4 television programme Hollyoaks, which will lead to a new hard-hitting online drama to support the campaign; further notes concern that alcohol-related crime costs £7.3 billion per year and that 45 per cent. of victims of crime describe their assailant as being under the influence of alcohol; calls on the Government to impose a minimum price for alcohol; and further notes that the introduction of a minimum price for alcohol has been advised by the Government's Chief Medical Adviser, Sir Liam Donaldson.

Signatures by party: Labour 19, Liberal Democrat 9, DUP 2, Social Democratic and Labour Party 2, Independent 1, Plaid Cymru 1.