Alcoholic Drinks: Excise Duties
Commons · Question 95882 · Tabled 1 Dec 2025 · Treasury · Official record
Answered 4 Dec 2025
Question
Asked by David Simmonds
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, further to the Autumn Budget 2025, for what reason alcohol duty is being uprated by RPI rather than CPI inflation.
Answer
Answered by Dan Tomlinson, 4 Dec 2025
The Office for National Statistics, regulated by the UK Statistics Authority, produces a range of inflation statistics. The most widely used estimates of inflation, both by Government and the private sector, are the Consumer Prices Index and the Retail Pr...