Question follow-through · 88541
Tobacco: Excise Duties
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make it her policy to (a) reduce and (b) freeze tobacco excise duty.
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 5 Nov 2025
- Target answer date
- 11 Nov 2025
- Answer
- 13 Nov 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
5 Nov 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make it her policy to (a) reduce and (b) freeze tobacco excise duty.
11 Nov 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
13 Nov 2025
Answer published
At Autumn Budget 2024, the Government renewed the commitment to a tobacco duty escalator, which increases duty by 2 per cent above RPI inflation at each Budget, until the end of the current Parliament. This is part of the Government’s focus on health prev...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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