Written Question·Treasury·UIN 95882
Alcoholic Drinks: Excise Duties
Tabled: 1 December 2025
Answered: 4 December 2025
Question
David Simmonds
Conservative — Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, further to the Autumn Budget 2025, for what reason alcohol duty is being uprated by RPI rather than CPI inflation.
Answer
Dan TomlinsonThe Office for National Statistics, regulated by the UK Statistics Authority, produces a range of inflation statistics. The most widely used estimates of inflation, both by Government and the private sector, are the Consumer Prices Index and the Retail Pr...
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