If I remember correctly from the statistics provided by the Minister at the meeting, 3% of the fatalities are occurring within the 50 to 80 milligram limit. So there will be fewer deaths and correspondingly fewer injuries if we reduce the limit. There is then the added effect—and thus, one hopes, an exponential benefit—of changing everybody’s behaviour in relation to alcohol.
Policing and Crime Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Baroness Berridge
(Conservative)
in the House of Lords on Wednesday, 9 November 2016.
It occurred during Committee of the Whole House (HL)
and
Debate on bills on Policing and Crime Bill.
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