Brighton & Hove City Council has called for public health directors to be given a slice of the £10bn raised every year through drink taxes.
In a letter to Home Office minister Mike Penning, the council’s chief executive, Geoff Raw, asked ‘in the spirit of devolution’ for a proportion of the revenue raised from alcohol taxation to be given directly to directors of public health and police and crime commissioners.
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