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Tobacco: Excise Duties

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of the tobacco duty escalator on inflation.

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Answering body: Treasury
Tabled: 27 Oct 2025
Target answer date: 29 Oct 2025
Answer: 4 Nov 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

27 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of the tobacco duty escalator on inflation.
29 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
4 Nov 2025
Answer published
The independent Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) is 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 o...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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