Policing and Crime Bill

Part of the debate – in a Public Bill Committee at 12:00 pm on 29 January 2009.

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Anita Coles: I think that, yes, it is illegal for a 16 or 17-year-old to be drinking, so they should not be drinking, but the reality is that a lot do. That does not make them criminals, in the sense that we would think of it; three times in one year is not actually that much. It does not seem that this will help with the problem of teenage drinking.