Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans he has to reduce the exposure of children to alcohol marketing.

The Department is not responsible for alcohol marketing.

In 2014, 8% of pupils had drunk alcohol in the last week, which is less than half the level in 2003 when this was 25%. There has been a consistent decrease the percentage children and young people drinking in the last week since 2003.

The survey data can be found at:

http://www.hscic.gov.uk/article/2021/Website-Search?productid=18273&q=Smoking+drinking+Drug+use+survey+2013&sort=Relevance&size=10&page=1&area=both#top