Alcoholic Drinks: Excise Duties
Commons · Question 70199 · Tabled 22 Jul 2025 · Treasury · Official record
Answered 4 Sep 2025
Question
Asked by Lisa Smart
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of increasing draft duty relief for (a) consumers, (b) pubs and (c) breweries in Hazel Grove constituency.
Answer
Answered by Dan Tomlinson, 4 Sep 2025
The Chancellor’s draught rate cut at Autumn Budget 2024 applied to approximately 60% of the alcoholic drinks sold in pubs. This took a penny of duty off a typical strength pint.Draught beer and cider now pay 13.9% less in duty than their packaged equivale...