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Alcohol is a major cause of death and illness in Wales; it leads to a number of health and social harms, particularly for the significant minority of people who drink to excess. In 2016, there were 504 alcohol\-related deaths in Wales and in 2016\-17, there were nearly 55,000 alcohol\-related hospital admissions. All alcohol\-related deaths and alcohol\-related hospital admissions are preventable.  

  

We have long been clear that a pricing intervention must be a key component of our comprehensive strategy to tackle alcohol misuse, not least because the affordability of alcohol has increased significantly over the past two decades. The National Assembly supported minimum pricing in June when the Public Health (Minimum Price for Alcohol) (Wales) Bill was passed. It received Royal Assent on 9 August 2018\.    

  

The Public Health (Minimum Price for Alcohol) (Wales) Act 2018 is targeted at protecting the health of hazardous and harmful drinkers who tend to consume greater amounts of low\-cost and high\-strength alcohol. It provides a formula for calculating the applicable minimum price for alcohol by multiplying the percentage strength of the alcohol, its volume and the minimum unit price. This allows us to target the sale and supply of low\-cost and high\-strength alcohol.    

  

The Act provides that the minimum unit price will be specified in regulations. Ahead of laying these regulations before the National Assembly for Wales, I am today launching a consultation about the preferred level for the minimum unit price.  

  

Taking into account a range of factors, we believe a 50p minimum unit price is a proportionate response to tackling the health risks of excessive alcohol consumption.  

We consider that a 50p minimum unit price will strike a reasonable balance between the anticipated public health and social benefits and intervention in the market.  

  

This consultation is not about the principle of minimum pricing. We have twice consulted about the principle of introducing a minimum price for alcohol in Wales – in 2014 as part of the Public Health White Paper  and in 2015 on a draft Public Health (Minimum Price for Alcohol) (Wales) Bill.  

  

This consultation is about the preferred minimum unit price – it will run for 12 weeks. We will then carefully consider and publish a summary of any consultation responses we receive. Having taken account of the responses to its questions, draft regulations specifying the minimum unit price for the purposes of the Act will then be laid before the National Assembly for its consideration.    

  

The consultation document – which includes the draft regulations specifying the preferred level of the minimum unit price and an accompanying draft Explanatory Memorandum and Regulatory Impact Assessment – is available here: https://beta.gov.wales/setting\-minimum\-unit\-price\-alcohol\<?xml:namespace prefix \= "o" ns \= "urn:schemas\-microsoft\-com:office:office" /\>


 12014 Consultation on the Public Health White Paper Listening to you: Your health matters.  

  

https://gov.wales/betaconsultations/healthsocialcare/white\-paper/?lang\=en  

  

 22015 Consultation on the Draft Public Health (Minimum Price for Alcohol) (Wales) Bill.  

  

https://gov.wales/betaconsultations/healthsocialcare/alcohol/?lang\=en  

  

 







Translation:


 
Mae alcohol yn un o brif achosion marwolaethau a salwch yng Nghymru; mae'n arwain at niwed i iechyd a niwed cymdeithasol, yn enwedig ar gyfer y lleiafrif o bobl sy’n goryfed. Yn 2016, bu 504 o farwolaethau cysylltiedig ag alcohol ac yn 2016\-17, bu bron i 55,000 o dderbyniadau i'r ysbyty sy'n gysylltiedig ag alcohol. Mae modd osgoi pob marwolaeth a phob derbyniad i'r ysbyty sy’n gysylltiedig ag alcohol.   
  
Rydym wedi nodi'n glir ers tro bod yn rhaid i'r ymyrraeth â'r pris fod yn rhan allweddol o’n strategaeth gynhwysfawr i fynd i'r afael â chamddefnyddio alcohol, yn enwedig oherwydd bod alcohol wedi mynd yn llawer mwy fforddiadwy dros yr ugain mlynedd diwethaf. Fe wnaeth y Cynulliad Cenedlaethol gefnogi isafbris uned ym mis Mehefin, pan basiwyd Bil Iechyd y Cyhoedd (Isafbris am Alcohol) (Cymru). Cafodd Gydsyniad Brenhinol ar 9 Awst 2018\.   
  
Mae Ddeddf Iechyd y Cyhoedd (Isafbris am Alcohol) (Cymru) 2018 wedi'i hanelu at ddiogelu iechyd yfwyr peryglus a niweidiol sy'n dueddol o yfed symiau uwch o gynhyrchion rhad sy'n cynnwys lefelau alcohol uchel. Mae'n darparu fformiwla ar gyfer cyfrifo'r isafbris cymwys am alcohol drwy luosi canran cryfder yr alcohol, ei gyfaint a'r isafbris uned. Mae hyn yn ein galluogi i dargedu gwerthiant a chyflenwad alcohol rhad a chryf.   
  
Mae'r Ddeddf yn nodi y bydd yr isafbris uned yn cael ei bennu mewn rheoliadau. Cyn gosod y rheoliadau hyn gerbron Cynulliad Cenedlaethol Cymru, rwyf heddiw’n lansio ymgynghoriad ynghylch lefel yr isafbris uned a ffefrir.   
  
Gan ystyried ystod o ffactorau, credwn fod isafbris uned o 50c yn ymateb cymesur i fynd i'r afael â'r risgiau iechyd sy'n gysylltiedig â goryfed alcohol.   
  
Ystyriwn y bydd isafbris uned o 50c yn taro cydbwysedd rhesymol rhwng y manteision iechyd cyhoeddus  a chymdeithasol a ragwelir a'r ymyrraeth yn y farchnad.   
  
Nid ymgynghoriad am yr egwyddor o osod isafbris uned yw hwn. Rydym wedi ymgynghori ddwywaith ar yr egwyddor o gyflwyno isafbris uned am alcohol yng Nghymru – yn 2014 fel rhan o Bapur Gwyn Iechyd y Cyhoedd  ac yn 2015 ar Fil drafft Iechyd y Cyhoedd (Isafbris Alcohol) (Cymru).   
  
Ymgynghoriad yw hwn ar yr isafbris uned a ffefrir, a bydd ar agor am 12 wythnos. Yna, byddwn yn ystyried yr ymatebion i'r ymgynghoriad yn ofalus ac yn cyhoeddi crynodeb o’r ymatebion a ddaeth i law. Ar ôl ystyried yr ymatebion i'r cwestiynau, bydd rheoliadau drafft yn pennu'r isafbris uned at ddibenion y Ddeddf yn cael eu gosod gerbron y Cynulliad Cenedlaethol i'w hystyried.   
  
Mae'r ddogfen ymgynghori yn cynnwys y rheoliadau drafft sy'n pennu lefel yr isafbris uned a ffefrir, ynghyd â Memorandwm Esboniadol ac Asesiad Effaith Rheoleiddiol, ac maent ar gael yma: https://beta.llyw.cymru/gosod\-yr\-isafbris\-am\-alcohol\<?xml:namespace prefix \= "o" ns \= "urn:schemas\-microsoft\-com:office:office" /\>

 1Ymgynghoriad 2014 ar Bapur Gwyn Iechyd y Cyhoedd, Gwrando arnoch chi: Mae eich iechyd yn bwysig. 

  

 https://gov.wales/betaconsultations/healthsocialcare/white\-paper/?skip\=1\&lang\=cy 

  

 2Ymgynghoriad 2015 ar Fil Drafft Iechyd y Cyhoedd (Isafbris Alcohol) (Cymru). 

  

 https://llyw.cymru/betaconsultations/healthsocialcare/alcohol/?skip\=1\&lang\=cy