Written Question·Treasury·UIN 78565

Tobacco: Excise Duties

Tabled: 10 October 2025

Answered: 15 October 2025

Question

Lee Anderson

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he Department has made an assessment of the potential impact of the current tobacco excise regime on the budgets of lower-income households.

Answer

Dan Tomlinson

At Autumn Budget 2024, the Government renewed the commitment to a tobacco duty escalator, which increases duty by 2 per cent above RPI inflation at each Budget, until the end of the current Parliament. This is part of the Government’s focus on health prev...

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