Written Question·Treasury·UIN 88538

Excise Duties

Tabled: 5 November 2025
Answered: 13 November 2025

Question

Jack Rankin

ConservativeWindsor

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she has considered moving the uprating of excise duty from Retail Price Index to Consumer Prices Index.

Answer

Dan Tomlinson
The Government confirms tax rates and thresholds annually. In some cases, reflecting the government’s economic and fiscal objectives, they are uprated to account for inflation. The Office for National Statistics, regulated by the UK Statistics Authority (...

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