Written Question·Treasury·UIN 88541
Tobacco: Excise Duties
Tabled: 5 November 2025
Answered: 13 November 2025
Question
Jack Rankin
Conservative — Windsor
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make it her policy to (a) reduce and (b) freeze tobacco excise duty.
Answer
Dan TomlinsonAt 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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