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Alcoholic Drinks: Chocolate

Question for Home Office

UIN 210249, tabled on 13 October 2014

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what representations she has received from medical bodies about proposals to allow the sale of liqueur chocolates to children under the age of 16.

Answered on

16 October 2014

The Home Office engages regularly with health bodies and groups concerned about alcohol-related harm. The Home Office has not received direct representations from medical bodies about proposals to abolish the offence of selling liqueur confectionery to those under the age of 16.

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