Question follow-through · 76488
Alcoholic Drinks: Excise Duties
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she plans to make changes to draft duty relief for (a) consumers, (b) pubs and (c) breweries in Mid Sussex constituency.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 10 Sept 2025
- Target answer date
- 15 Sept 2025
- Answer
- 16 Sept 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
10 Sept 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she plans to make changes to draft duty relief for (a) consumers, (b) pubs and (c) breweries in Mid Sussex constituency.
15 Sept 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
16 Sept 2025
Answer published
The Chancellor’s draught rate cut at Autumn Budget 2024 applied to approximately 60% of the alcoholic drinks sold in pubs. This took a penny of duty off a typical strength pint at a cost to the Exchequer of over £85m a year. Draught beer and cider now pa...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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