Question follow-through · 94557
Alcoholic Drinks: Excise Duties
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of alcohol duty increases on 1 February 2025 on revenue from alcohol duty receipts.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 25 Nov 2025
- Target answer date
- 27 Nov 2025
- Answer
- 2 Dec 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
25 Nov 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of alcohol duty increases on 1 February 2025 on revenue from alcohol duty receipts.
27 Nov 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
2 Dec 2025
Answer published
Alcohol duty receipts for the period March 2025 to October 2025, following the February 2025 rate increase, totalled £7.8 billion, down 4.5% from the same period in 2024 when receipts totalled £8.1 billion. This is driven by an underlying fall in alcohol ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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