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Spirits: Excise Duties

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will conduct a review of the potential impact of spirits duty policy on the on-trade sector.

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Answering body: Treasury
Tabled: 25 Nov 2025
Target answer date: 1 Dec 2025
Answer: 1 Dec 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling

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25 Nov 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will conduct a review of the potential impact of spirits duty policy on the on-trade sector.
1 Dec 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
1 Dec 2025
Answer published
At Autumn Budget 2025 the Chancellor confirmed that alcohol duty will be uprated on 1 February 2026 to main its current real-terms value. The government does not expect this to have any significant impact to GDP, nor competition between the on and off tra...

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