Sentence examples for minimum pricing with from inspiring English sources

Research published in Canada has linked the introduction of minimum pricing with a significant drop in alcohol-related deaths.

It has combined minimum pricing with a cut in taxes on low-alcohol beer - which now accounts for a third of the beer market.

Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Willie Rennie said he had personally always supported minimum pricing, with the party backing the policy after he took over as leader following last May's election.

As confidence has returned to the market, guarantees have made a reappearance in the form of "irrevocable bids" from anonymous third-party investors that ensure works sell for a minimum price, with the investor taking a larger cut of the price if it exceeds the guarantee.

Trade body Spirits Europe, which was part of the petition against minimum pricing along with the SWA, has also said it will appeal the judgement.

[But] given our strong view that minimum pricing is incompatible with EU law and likely to be ineffective, we now hope that our appeal can be heard quickly in the UK supreme court.

The Scottish government said minimum pricing does comply with European law.

It pointed out that "the average price of a bottle of wine produced in the United Kingdom is higher than the average price of imported wine" and said that minimum pricing was "incompatible" with EU law as it "closes the competitiveness gap, discourages efforts at market entry and... creates a distortion of competition".

Just three months ago, the government said it thought minimum pricing would be incompatible with European competition law.

"In Scotland, Alex Salmond is pushing ahead with minimum pricing policies, and yet in England there is a deafening silence where a substantive strategy should be".

Tory health spokesman Murdo Fraser said the SNP was "obsessed" with minimum pricing, and called on ministers to await the detail of UK government plans to ban sales of below-cost price alcohol and increases in duty targeted on problem and high-strength drinks.