Question follow-through · 94981
Beer: Excise Duties
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she has made an assessment of the impact of reducing beer duty by 5% across (a) draught, (b) packaged and (c) lower-strength beer on (i) growth and (ii) investment in the sector.
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 26 Nov 2025
- Target answer date
- 1 Dec 2025
- Answer
- 4 Dec 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
26 Nov 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she has made an assessment of the impact of reducing beer duty by 5% across (a) draught, (b) packaged and (c) lower-strength beer on (i) growth and (ii) investment in the sector.
1 Dec 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
4 Dec 2025
Answer published
At Autumn Budget 2025 the Chancellor confirmed that alcohol duty will be uprated by Retail Price Index (RPI) on 1 February 2026 to main its current real-terms value. The government considers uprating to be a prudent decision for the public finances that b...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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