Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether an Equality Impact Assessment was carried out by his Department on the proposals set out in the Alcohol Duty Review.

The completion and publication of formal Equality Impact Assessment (EIA) documents is not a legal or procedural requirement. However, equality impacts are appropriately assessed and explained to ministers throughout the policymaking process.

Treasury Ministers carefully considered the equalities impacts of the reforms to alcohol duties and had due regard to the public sector equality duty when making decisions.

Further information on the equalities implications of the alcohol duty reforms will be published in a Tax Information and Impact Note (TIIN) when the policy is final, or near final, in the usual way.