Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of reducing beer duty bills for all British-owned independent brewers to the rate paid in 2019-20 for the rest of the 2020-21 financial year.

The Treasury froze beer duty at the recent Budget. This means that the beer duty rate is the same in 2020-21 as in 2019-20. Thanks to decisions by this Government, the beer duty rate has been unchanged since 2017.

The Treasury keeps all taxes, including beer duty, under review.