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Cross Party Group on Drugs and Alcohol Misuse – Thursday 12th January 2012 at the Scottish Parliament.  The topic at this meeting was the Rethinking Alcohol Licensing report, which focuses attention on the key purpose of licensing as a regulatory activity to control alcohol-related harm and the need for Licensing Boards to have robust evidence based policy to inform their decision making. Presentations from the meeting are available below by the following

Mary Ellmers, Head of Training & Development at Alcohol Focus Scotland provided a general overview of the report. Click for presentation

Andrew Fraser, Head of Legal, Democratic and Regulatory Services at West Dunbartonshire Council will present on the approach taken to develop their overprovision policy. Click for presentation