Topical Debate — Cheap Alcohol (Health Consequences)

Part of Orders of the Day — Consolidated Fund Bill – in the House of Commons at 1:58 pm on 6 December 2007.

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Photo of David Taylor David Taylor Labour, North West Leicestershire 1:58, 6 December 2007

The Minister refers to the bleak local and national figures. Cases of cirrhosis of the liver have doubled in the past seven years, and have gone up by more than a third in the past two years. Does he not think that we ought to have a much more widespread and effective public health campaign? Notwithstanding the comments of Philip Davies, the availability of cheap alcohol at national chains with names like Bargain Booze says an awful lot about us as a nation, does it not?