Alcoholic Drinks: Excise Duties

(asked on 19th March 2015) - View Source

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is their estimate of likely changes in alcohol consumption in the United Kingdom as a result of changes to alcohol duty in the 2015 Budget.


Answered by
 Portrait
Lord Deighton
This question was answered on 26th March 2015

The effect of alcohol consumption is referred to in the policy costing note on alcohol duties published at Budget 2015, available at the gov.uk website[1].

[1] https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/413895/Policy_Costings_18_00.pdf.

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