Alcohol

Part of Supplementary Estimates 2009-10 — Department of Health – in the House of Commons at 3:15 pm on 10 March 2010.

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Photo of Jim McGovern Jim McGovern Labour, Dundee West 3:15, 10 March 2010

While my hon. Friend is on the subject of Scotland, I appreciate that I came in at the end of the speech made by Pete Wishart, so he did not want to let me intervene. However, does my hon. Friend agree that the hypocrisy, at worst, or irony, at best, of the hon. Gentleman's party's position is that it says that it wants to raise the price of low-cost alcohol, which obviously comes within the incomes of the people who are earning the least in Scotland, but wants to exempt malt whisky, for example? That party says that nobody runs amok when they drink malt whisky, and the implication of that is that people on low incomes cannot be trusted with alcohol while people on high incomes can obviously be trusted.