People did not travel extensively outside of Scotland to buy cheaper alcohol following the introduction of Minimum Unit Pricing (MUP), a study has revealed.

Public Health Scotland said only ‘minimal' cross-border purchasing had occurred since MUP was introduced, with only 3% of Scottish adults saying they had travelled to another part of the UK to buy alcohol. In the year after the new legislation was introduced, the research found that off-trade alcohol sales in the North East and North West England increased by only 1.14%.