Alcoholic Drinks: Excise Duties
Commons · Question 94557 · Tabled 25 Nov 2025 · Treasury · Official record
Answered 2 Dec 2025
Question
Asked by Gregory Stafford
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.
Answer
Answered by Dan Tomlinson, 2 Dec 2025
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 ...