Alcohol

Part of Supplementary Estimates 2009-10 — Department of Health – in the House of Commons at 3:28 pm on 10 March 2010.

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Photo of Philip Davies Philip Davies Conservative, Shipley 3:28, 10 March 2010

The people who have studied the proposal, which the right hon. Gentleman's Select Committee seemingly has not done, came to the conclusion that there is no evidence that it would have any effect at all on alcohol use, yet his Committee is prepared, without any evidence, to siphon off- [Interruption.] That is what the Health Committee proposes-

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