Institute of Alcohol Studies

These are our recommendations for a healthier parliamentary workplace:

🍷 Free alcohol limited to evening events only

🕐 Tackle the stress and long hours driving drinking

📢 Better signposting to confidential support

The ASA, the UK’s independent advertising regulator, found that more than 13% of alcohol ads featuring people clearly or possibly breached rules by showing people under 25 or who appeared to be under 25.

Read the snapshot report:

One line from the our new report that sums up how unusual Westminster is as a workplace:

“No other workplace I’ve had produces its own wine.” – Staffer

Read the full findings: https://www.ias.org.uk/report/under-the-influence-perspectives-of-alcohol-in-the-parliamentary-workplace-among-uk-mps-and-staff

“This isn’t acceptable in any other workplace.”

Professor Sir Ian Gilmore of @UK_AHA talked with LBC about our new report: ‘Under the influence? Perspectives of alcohol in the parliamentary workplace among UK MPs and staff.’

Report: https://www.ias.org.uk/news/westminsters-drinking-culture-is-putting-staff-wellbeing-at-risk-first-of-its-kind-study-finds/