Question follow-through · 22079
Beer: Excise Duties
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of providing duty relief to brewers of cask conditioned beers.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 6 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 8 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 9 Jan 2025 · 3 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
6 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of providing duty relief to brewers of cask conditioned beers.
8 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
9 Jan 2025
Answer published
Draught Relief provides a duty discount for eligible draught beer and cider. Cask conditioned beers will be able to benefit from Draught Relief if they are sold in a container of 20 litres or more, connected to a dispense system and are below 8.5 per cent...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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