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12921Minimum unit pricing works – and it works for the people who need it most

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Minimum unit pricing works – and it works for the people who need it most

Dr James M. Clay

18th December 2025

12946Budget 2025: Alcohol duty kept with inflation, but still far from true cost

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Budget 2025: Alcohol duty kept with inflation, but still far from true cost

Jem Roberts

16th December 2025

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Autumn Budget Analysis 2025

December 2025

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Alcohol taxes should reflect the cost of harm to society, incentivising producers to reduce that harm, not profit from it.

Our Autumn Budget Analysis sets out a better way.

Read here:

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The landmark pre-watershed ban on unhealthy food and drink advertising has come into force

It bans television ads pre-9pm and all online ads, and is expected to reduce the number of children living with obesity by 20,000

The ban does not include alcohol

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This #DryJanuary, track how it feels to go alcohol-free with the Try Dry® app.

Get ready to boss your mood: http://bit.ly/43HzUIE

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There are 132,000 premises that have a license for either just on-sales or both on- and off-sales of alcohol.

These premises have increased in number by 13% since 2007/08.

See our Availability page for more stats and charts.

https://www.ias.org.uk/factsheet/availability/

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