Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will take steps to restrict the location of sale of alcohol.

We have no plans to further restrict the location of sale of alcohol. The Licensing Act 2003 regulates the sale and supply of alcohol. The Act already allows individual premises and licensing authorities to introduce appropriate safeguards as they deem necessary. Licensing authorities consider applications on a case-by-case basis and can impose conditions on the terms of a license, for example limiting hours of sale, as they deem appropriate.

The Government takes a wide-ranging approach to addressing alcohol harms, including through commitments in the landmark 10-year drug strategy and NHS Long Term Plan, for example an ambitious programme to establish specialist alcohol care teams in the 25% hospitals with the highest rates of alcohol dependence-related admissions, alcohol-mortality, and deprivation.