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Industry consulted on raising minimum alcohol price in Scotland

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Options include increasing the current unit price from 50p to more than 80p.

Hussan Lal, the Federation of Independent Retailer's president in Scotland, said: "We can see the argument for increasing the price which has been in place for five years.

"It would be particularly hard when family budgets are already badly squeezed by the cost of living crisis."Before minimum pricing, Scottish supermarkets usually had lower alcohol costs than convenience stores He said: "There needs to be highly effective campaigning to help change Scotland's attitude towards drink and therapy for problem drinking needs to be much more widely available."

 

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