Speeches

Phillip Lee – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Phillip Lee on 2015-11-05.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans he has to reduce the exposure of children to alcohol marketing.

Jane Ellison

The Department is not responsible for alcohol marketing.

In 2014, 8% of pupils had drunk alcohol in the last week, which is less than half the level in 2003 when this was 25%. There has been a consistent decrease the percentage children and young people drinking in the last week since 2003.

The survey data can be found at:

http://www.hscic.gov.uk/article/2021/Website-Search?productid=18273&q=Smoking+drinking+Drug+use+survey+2013&sort=Relevance&size=10&page=1&area=both#top