Question follow-through · 47549
Beer: Excise Duties
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of extending the current beer duty freeze on the pub industry.
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 23 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 25 Apr 2025
- Answer
- 1 May 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
23 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of extending the current beer duty freeze on the pub industry.
25 Apr 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
1 May 2025
Answer published
At the Autumn Budget, the Chancellor cut alcohol duty on qualifying draught products, including most draught beer – approximately 60% of the alcoholic drinks sold in pubs. This represents an overall reduction in duty bills of over £85 million a year and i...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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