Dr. Adrienne Foran:

I do not know if they are increasing but we think they are. While it was not socially acceptable for my grandmother to sit in a pub 40 years ago, it is the norm now for young women as young as 13 and 14 to drink quite heavily. That is why we are keen to get that data in order to find out how many babies are exposed to alcohol during pregnancy. If that were anonymised, people would consent to give that information. Then we would get some idea if it is as a big a problem as we think it might be or otherwise.