Alcoholic Drinks: Excise Duties

(asked on 24th February 2022) - View Source

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of equalising cider and beer duty to improve public health.


Answered by
Helen Whately Portrait
Helen Whately
Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
This question was answered on 3rd March 2022
The Government has considered the merits of equalising beer and cider duty as part of its alcohol duty review, both from a public health and revenue raising perspective.

However, while public health remains an important focus of our review, this must be balanced against the need to support businesses and, given the cider industry has been in consistent decline over the past decade, the Government has decided not to equalise cider with other categories.
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