Alcohol price study defended

Published on 14/09/2010 17:55

An ACADEMIC has defended the study used by the Scottish Government to seek to impose a 45p a unit minimum price on alcohol.

Anne Ludbrook, professor of health economics at the University of Aberdeen, said she was "slightly concerned" that Holyrood's health and sport committee sometimes misunderstood the value of the modelling work that has been done on the issue.

Prof Ludbrook said the difference between using a minimum unit price and taxation to drive up the cost of alcohol was that the latter would "widen the range of products" affected by a price increase.