HC Deb 26 June 1997 vol 296 c599W
Mr. Rendel

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions what plans he has to decriminalise the test purchasing by under-age children on behalf of local authority trading standards departments. [4883]

Mr. George Howarth

I have been asked to reply.

The Ministerial Group on Alcopops will be considering the role of test purchases in helping to enforce the law preventing the sale of certain goods to young people.

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