SCOTTISH LABOUR has renewed calls for a sales levy on booze to fund treatment services, nearly six years after minimum unit pricing was introduced.

The SNP Scottish government brought in minimum unit pricing for alcohol in 2018 in what has been viewed as a relatively successful attempt to curb consumption, but the measure does not generate extra cash for the public purse.

Introduced three years after a public health supplement for large retailers on alcohol was scrapped, minimum unit pricing has faced criticism for boosting the profit margins of retailers, while funding for addiction services has been cut across the country.