Question follow-through · 9926
Alcoholic Drinks: Excise Duties
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make it her policy to not raise alcohol duty.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 18 Oct 2024
- Target answer date
- 22 Oct 2024
- Answer
- 28 Oct 2024 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
18 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make it her policy to not raise alcohol duty.
22 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
28 Oct 2024
Answer published
Pubs and breweries make an enormous contribution to our economy and society, and this is recognised in the tax system. The current alcohol duty system supports pubs and breweries through Draught Relief, which ensures eligible products served on draught pa...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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