Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of reducing (a) beer duty and (b) other alcohol duties for pubs.
The Government keeps the duty rates under review during its yearly budget process and aims to balance the impact on businesses with its public health objectives.
The alcohol duty uprating decision and interactions with the wider reforms to alcohol duties will be considered in due course.