HC Deb 30 March 1998 vol 309 cc434-5W
Dr. Harris

To ask the Secretary of State for Health if the evidence submitted to the Sensible Drinking Review has been published. [36195]

Ms Jowell

No. Details of the persons and organisations who submitted written evidence to the review, as well as those of the experts who gave oral evidence to the Inter-Departmental Working Group, can be found in the report "Sensible Drinking", copies of which have been placed in the Library of the House.

Dr. Harris

To ask the Secretary of State for Health which organisations were involved in the consultation process for unit labelling of alcoholic products; and if he will separately identify those involved in the format and design of the labels. [36206]

Ms Jowell

The announcement in October 1997 by some of the United Kingdom's largest drinks companies that they would be introducing a voluntary scheme of unit labelling on their packaged products explicitly to support the Government's Sensible Drinking message was an initiative taken by the companies themselves. The companies involved in the scheme are: Seagram, Allied Domecq, Whitbread, Diageo and Bacardi-Martini.