Question follow-through · 31030
Alcoholic Drinks: Excise Duties
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of reducing (a) beer duty and (b) other alcohol duties for pubs.
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 12 Feb 2025
- Target answer date
- 24 Feb 2025
- Answer
- 24 Feb 2025 · 12 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
Recorded timeline
12 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of reducing (a) beer duty and (b) other alcohol duties for pubs.
24 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
24 Feb 2025
Answer published
Pubs make an enormous contribution to our economy and society, and this is recognised in the tax system. Draught Relief provides a duty discount for all draught products below 8.5 per cent alcohol by volume (ABV). Around 60% of alcoholic drinks served in ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
Strong links require the same MP, department and exact heading. Other same-department questions are shown as unreviewed candidates, not as confirmed follow-ups. No debate link is asserted unless a stable source relationship exists.
Agriculture: Inheritance Tax
13 Feb 2025 · To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of changes to agricultural property relief on (a) the UK’s food security and (b) trends in the numbers of farms in the next five years.
Agriculture: Inheritance Tax
21 Feb 2025 · To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of reviewing changes to the Agricultural Property Relief threshold.
Assets: Taxation
27 Feb 2025 · To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make it her policy not to implement a wealth tax on assets above a certain threshold in the Spring Statement 2025.
Inheritance Tax
27 Feb 2025 · To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make it her policy not to (a) lower inheritance tax thresholds and (b) increase inheritance tax rates in the Spring Statement 2025.
National Insurance Contributions
27 Feb 2025 · To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make it her policy not to increase employee National Insurance contributions in the Spring Statement 2025.
Taxation: Impact Assessments
27 Feb 2025 · To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will publish detailed impact assessments for future tax increases.
Domicil: Tax Yields
27 Feb 2025 · To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an estimate of the potential reduction in tax revenues from non-UK domiciled individuals leaving the UK.
Wealth: Overseas Residence
27 Feb 2025 · To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps she is taking to encourage high net wealth individuals to remain in the UK.
Income Tax: Tax Allowances
28 Feb 2025 · To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she has made an assessment of the potential cost to the public purse of abolishing the (a) High Income Child Benefit Charge and (b) reductions in the level of Personal Allowance for people earning over (i) £
Alcoholic Drinks and Tobacco: Smuggling
13 May 2025 · To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many (a) calls and (b) online submissions have been made to HMRC fraud hotline in relation to (i) illegal tobacco and (ii) illegal alcohol in each of the last five years.
Tobacco: Smuggling
22 May 2025 · To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many referrals has HMRC received from local enforcement authorities in relation to the penalty regime introduced through the Tobacco Products (Traceability and Security Features) (Amendment) Regulations 2023.
Cash Dispensing: Ashfield
22 May 2025 · To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps she is taking to help ensure access to cash in Ashfield constituency.