The Home Affairs Select Committee has recommend MPs to come down hard on irresponsible bars and pubs, as well as supermarkets who offer cheap alcohol.
After the Select Committee’s report, a number of MPs called for happy hours in pubs to be banned and for supermarkets to stop selling its alcohol at a huge loss to combat drunk and disorderly behaviour.
Their calls come after a report into the challenges facing police forces stated that, reckless and irresponsible drinking placed a heavy burden of police recourses, and added that the largest problem facing the police force was violence and disorderly conduct cause by excessive drinking.
Other recent figures on the cost of goods also show that alcohol has become more affordable to the majority of the population over the last 30 years. Mps said that one of the solutions to the problem would be a legislation that would set a minimum price for alcohol.
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