Written Question·Treasury·UIN 94643

Alcoholic Drinks: Excise Duties

Tabled: 26 November 2025
Answered: 4 December 2025

Question

Tim Farron

Liberal DemocratWestmorland and Lonsdale

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the impact of inflation-linked duty increases on the on-trade in each of the last three years.

Answer

Dan Tomlinson
Alcohol duty is paid by producers, and is therefore not typically paid directly by pubs. Further, according to estimates derived from sales data collected on behalf of the Office for National Statistics, only around 15% of spirits are consumed on-trade. A...

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