Treasury minister: Minimum price for booze could be "incompatible" with EU law
What with this talk of David Cameron pushing for a minimum price on booze, I looked up a recent Parliamentary debate on the issue. In fact it was on December 14, just a couple of weeks since the story broke in The Telegraph.
Treasury Minister Chloe Smith was responding to a Westminster Hall debate secured by Tory MP Dr Sarah Wollaston, who was been campaigning on a minimum price for booze.
Here is what the minister had to say: "First, as my hon. Friend the Member for Totnes explained, the Scottish Government have recently introduced a Bill that seeks to bring in a 45p per unit minimum price.
"She asked why this Government believe that that would be incompatible with EU law, when the Scottish Government do not. If I may quote the specific point: we believe that it could be incompatible with article 34 of the treaty of the functioning of the European Union.
"I should be delighted to go into more detail on that if she required. That is the position."
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