Written Question·Treasury·UIN 69942

Alcoholic Drinks: Excise Duties

Tabled: 22 July 2025
Answered: 4 September 2025

Question

James Naish

LabourRushcliffe

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent assessment she has made of the potential merits of increasing draft duty relief for (a) consumers, (b) pubs and (c) breweries in (i) Rushcliffe and (ii) rest of the UK.

Answer

Dan Tomlinson
The Chancellor’s draught rate cut at Autumn Budget 2024 applied to approximately 60% of the alcoholic drinks sold in pubs. This took a penny of duty off a typical strength pint.Draught beer and cider now pay 13.9% less in duty than their packaged equivale...

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