Question follow-through · 61235

Tobacco: Excise Duties

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate her Department has made with the Office for National Statistics of the potential impact of tobacco excise duty on the level of the Consumer Prices Index in (a) October 2024 and (b) June 2025.

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Answering body
Treasury
Tabled
19 Jun 2025
Target answer date
23 Jun 2025
Answer
24 Jun 2025 · 5 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 19 Jun 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate her Department has made with the Office for National Statistics of the potential impact of tobacco excise duty on the level of the Consumer Prices Index in (a) October 2024 and (b) June 2025.

  2. 23 Jun 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 24 Jun 2025

    Answer published

    The independent Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) are responsible for estimating the impact of Government policies on inflation. The OBR did not include an assessment on the contribution of tobacco excise duty to inflation in either the October 2024 ...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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