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Westminster Hall
Wine Duty - Tue 05 Mar 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Will Quince (Con - Colchester) The UK is a major global hub for wine and spirits. - Speech Link
2: Gareth Davies (Con - Grantham and Stamford) We have introduced the biggest reform of alcohol duties for more than 140 years. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Autumn Statement Resolutions - Mon 27 Nov 2023
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Eleanor Laing (Con - Epping Forest) Travellers' Allowances Order 1994 (which provides in certain circumstances for a simplified calculation of excise - Speech Link
2: Nigel Huddleston (Con - Mid Worcestershire) Travellers' Allowances Order 1994 (which provides in certain circumstances for a simplified calculation of excise - Speech Link
3: Liz Kendall (Lab - Leicester West) Jobcentres will also have new duties to work in partnership with the local NHS, employers and others. - Speech Link
4: Richard Thomson (SNP - Gordon) the UK Government setting a rate of duty where there is a gigantic differential between indigenous spirits - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Autumn Statement Resolutions - Thu 23 Nov 2023
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Rosie Winterton (Lab - Doncaster Central) Travellers’ Allowances Order 1994 (which provides in certain circumstances for a simplified calculation of excise - Speech Link
2: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) Rates and alcohol duties have been frozen for another year, including those on spirits, meaning it will - Speech Link
3: Thérèse Coffey (Con - Suffolk Coastal) Government because of the uncertainty it would bring, and indeed some concerns on pension fiduciary duties—we - Speech Link
4: Thérèse Coffey (Con - Suffolk Coastal) Of course, any additional duties, if the Government were minded to take that forward, should be accompanied - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Finance (No. 2) Bill
Report stage - Tue 20 Jun 2023
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Rosie Winterton (LAB - Doncaster Central) obtained from the alcoholic fermentation of fresh grapes or the must of fresh grapes and fortified with spirits - Speech Link
2: None Amendments 15 and 16 relate to the Bill’s provisions on alcohol duties and seek to ensure that alcoholic - Speech Link
3: Victoria Atkins (CON - Louth and Horncastle) other numbered Finance Act);(b) the Taxes Acts (within the meaning of TMA 1970);(c) the customs and excise - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Finance (No. 2) Bill (Second sitting)
Committee stage: 2nd sitting - Tue 16 May 2023
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Gareth Davies (CON - Grantham and Stamford) Clauses 72 to 81 reproduce existing exemptions and reliefs from excise duty on alcohol products. - Speech Link
2: None for personal consumption, spirits contained in imported medical articles, spirits contained in food - Speech Link
3: Abena Oppong-Asare (LAB - Erith and Thamesmead) duty, including where spirits may be used for art or manufacture. - Speech Link
4: Gareth Davies (CON - Grantham and Stamford) Clauses 90 to 97 reproduce the existing exemption from excise duty on denatured alcohol. - Speech Link
5: Abena Oppong-Asare (LAB - Erith and Thamesmead) Clause 110 inserts new subsections into the Customs and Excise Management Act 1979. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Finance (No. 2) Bill
Committee of the whole House (day 2) - Wed 19 Apr 2023
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: James Cartlidge (CON - South Suffolk) It moves us from individual, product-specific duties and bands to a single duty on all alcoholic products - Speech Link
2: James Cartlidge (CON - South Suffolk) There are spirits that will benefit from the differential—not spirits served from what I think are called - Speech Link
3: Alistair Carmichael (LDEM - Orkney and Shetland) So it is important that we have a coherent strategy for the excise duty on these products. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Economic Update - Mon 17 Oct 2022
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Mike Wood (CON - Dudley South) the decisions that he has today easily, but he will recognise that the planned increases in alcohol duties - Speech Link
2: Jeremy Hunt (CON - South West Surrey) As he knows, we are reviewing the whole structure of alcohol duties, and as part of that process we will - Speech Link
3: Alistair Carmichael (LDEM - Orkney and Shetland) executive of the Scotch Whisky Association made the point this morning that, time after time, freezes in spirits - Speech Link
4: Christine Jardine (LDEM - Edinburgh West) Friends, the Scotch whisky industry, and the spirits industry generally, is now facing uncertainty because - Speech Link
5: Jeremy Hunt (CON - South West Surrey) We will conclude the decisions on what we will do in terms of excise duty reform generally as quickly - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Northern Ireland Protocol Bill
2nd reading - Tue 11 Oct 2022
Scotland Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon (CON - Life peer) access.The Bill will also ensure that the Government can set UK-wide policies on subsidy control, VAT and excise - Speech Link
2: Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick (LAB - Life peer) It removes the ECJ from NIP decisions, and VAT and excise duties will be set by UK Ministers, rather - Speech Link
3: Lord Browne of Belmont (DUP - Life peer) from Great Britain to Northern Ireland and bringing Northern Ireland fully back into the UK’s VAT and excise - Speech Link
4: Baroness Crawley (LAB - Life peer) Our spirits, battered by the dreadful war in Ukraine, were lifted last week on learning that meaningful - Speech Link
5: Baroness Ludford (LDEM - Life peer) We are working in good spirits and in good cooperation … We need to show some progress on that”. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Alcohol Taxation - Thu 07 Jul 2022
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: John Penrose (CON - Weston-super-Mare) brought in as a result of these proposals will result in a need for increased staff to manage monthly excise - Speech Link
2: Daisy Cooper (LDEM - St Albans) alcohol content of wine made from fresh grapes, meaning that without testing every wine at the point excise - Speech Link
3: Richard Thomson (SNP - Gordon) I think it is fair to say that if any Scottish Government had had control over the range of duties applied - Speech Link
4: Richard Thomson (SNP - Gordon) I believe a review of where we are on duties is a ripe opportunity to do that, and I would be failing - Speech Link
5: Lucy Frazer (CON - South East Cambridgeshire) with spirits, even if they are the same strength. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Health and Care Bill
Lords Hansard _ Part 1 - Wed 16 Mar 2022
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: None The Government already have two tools to raise money from tobacco: excise and MET—minimum excise tax—which - Speech Link
2: None Again according to HMRC’s figures, the Government collected £12.5 billion in excise and VAT from tobacco - Speech Link
3: Earl Howe (CON - Excepted Hereditary) Our strong preference is to continue with high tobacco taxation and excise as the best means and the - Speech Link
4: Baroness Walmsley (LDEM - Life peer) foodstuffs that come from abroad and they have to abide by British rules on labelling, so why not wine and spirits - Speech Link
5: Baroness Mallalieu (LAB - Life peer) support assisted dying or not, because it is about the role of Parliament and the proper exercise of the duties - Speech Link