Lucy Rigby

Lucy Rigby

Labour — Northampton North

Speaking in the House of Commons on 13 January 2026

Debate

Finance (No. 2) Bill

Contribution

I am grateful to all Members for their contributions to today’s debate. Almost all of them have spoken passionately about their local pubs. I specifically acknowledge the contribution of the hon. Member for Angus and Perthshire Glens (Dave Doogan), just to deny him the pleasure of my not doing so. We are taking a prudent and responsible decision to uprate alcohol duty in line with RPI. That is fully assumed in the OBR’s baseline forecast, so failing to uprate would come at a real cost.

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