Tobacco: Excise Duties
Commons · Question 111208 · Tabled 5 Feb 2026 · Treasury · Official record
Answered 12 Feb 2026
Question
Asked by Kate Osborne
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential impact of applying only one of the (a) RPI-linked uprating and (b) one-off tobacco duty increase scheduled to take effect from 1 October 2026 on inflati
Answer
Answered by Dan Tomlinson, 12 Feb 2026
At Autumn Budget 2024, the Government renewed the commitment to a tobacco duty escalator, which increases duty by 2 per cent above RPI inflation at each Budget, until the end of the current Parliament. Budget 2025 announced tobacco duty will rise in line ...