Question follow-through · 60427

Tobacco: Excise Duties

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 9 June 2025 to Question 54690 on Tobacco: Excise Duties, whether her Department has undertaken analysis on the reasons for the 10% fall in tobacco duty receipts.

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Answering body
Treasury
Tabled
17 Jun 2025
Target answer date
19 Jun 2025
Answer
23 Jun 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 17 Jun 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 9 June 2025 to Question 54690 on Tobacco: Excise Duties, whether her Department has undertaken analysis on the reasons for the 10% fall in tobacco duty receipts.

  2. 19 Jun 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 23 Jun 2025

    Answer published

    HMRC publishes commentary on tobacco duty receipts with the Tobacco Bulletin - Tobacco statistics commentary April 2025 - GOV.UK. The 10% decrease in tobacco duty receipts between 2023/24 and 2024/25 was primarily driven by falling cigarette and hand roll...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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