Ms Sturgeon said she regretted that the opposition parties decided to oppose minimum pricing before the Health Committee had "heard a shred of evidence".

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Ms Scanlon told the committee the policy of minimum pricing had not been backed sufficiently by the evidence the committee had scrutinised.

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Technology giants Apple, Microsoft and Adobe have been called by the Australian parliament to appear before a committee looking at pricing levels.

BBC: Apple, Microsoft and Adobe summoned by Australia

Ted Kennedy's Health, Education, Labor and Pensions committee gets enacted, health insurance pricing will enter a time warp.

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An amendment tabled by Conservative MSP Mary Scanlon, which sought to strike out the section of the Alcohol Bill dealing with minimum pricing, was backed by all five opposition MSPs on the committee, with the three SNP MSPs voting against it.

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Health Secretary Nicola Sturgeon told the committee the government would make one last attempt to re-insert minimum pricing in the bill during its final vote in parliament.

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In the Lords (starting at 3pm) it's Day 11 of the Health and Social Care Bill Committee Stage - looking in detail at the provisions on provider regulation, licensing and pricing - some amendments may be pushed to a vote.

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Manuel Cortes, leader of the TSSA transport workers' union, said the select committee report was "the clearest warning to ministers against going down the route of rationing rail travel by pricing passengers off trains through super peak-fare tickets".

BBC: Higher peak-time rail fares opposed