Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the report on Alcohol-specific deaths in the UK: registered in 2019, published by the ONS on 2 February 2021, what recent discussions he has had with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the potential merits of increasing alcohol duty.

Officials at the Department of Health and Social Care and HM Treasury have discussed alcohol duty and its impact on health in the context of the report and responses are currently being analysed.