Written Question·Treasury·UIN 95882

Alcoholic Drinks: Excise Duties

Tabled: 1 December 2025
Answered: 4 December 2025

Question

David Simmonds

ConservativeRuislip, 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 Tomlinson
The 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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