Question reference: S6W-12875
- Date lodged: 5 December 2022
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Current status: Answered by Maree Todd on 15 December 2022
Question
To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on whether minimum unit pricing has achieved its aims, in light of reports that 2021 saw the highest number of alcohol-specific deaths in Scotland since 2008.
Answer
We are currently in the process of evaluating minimum unit pricing (MUP) as a whole over its first five years of operation. Public Health Scotland will be producing a final report on MUP in 2023, which will inform our evaluation report which will be laid in Parliament and published in 2023.
We will review the final evaluation report from Public Health Scotland before drawing overall conclusions on whether the policy has achieved its aims.