Westminster Hall
Wine Duty - Tue 05 Mar 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Will Quince (Con - Colchester) Wine is not like beer or cider. - Speech Link
2: Gareth Davies (Con - Grantham and Stamford) Friend the Member for Colchester rightly pointed out, the weather impact of wine, and included cider, - Speech Link

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Written Question

Food: Japan

Wednesday 24th April 2024

Asked by: Emily Thornberry (Labour - Islington South and Finsbury)

Question to the Department for Business and Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, pursuant to the Answer of 19 April 2024 to Question 20567 on Food: Japan, which two products were included in the second tranche submitted to the Japanese authorities other than Armagh Bramley Apples, Ayrshire New Potatoes, Beacon Fell Lancashire Cheese, Bonchester Cheese, Buxton Blue, Carmarthen Ham, Cornish Sardines, Darnibole Wine, Dorset Blue Cheese, Dovedale Cheese, Exmoor Blue Cheese, Fal Oyster, Fenland Celery, Gloucestershire Cider, Gloucestershire Perry, Lakeland Herdwick, Native Shetland Wool, New Season Comber Potatoes, Newmarket Sausage, Orkney Beef, Orkney Lamb, Rutland Bitter, Scottish Wild Salmon, Shetland Lamb, Swaledale Cheese, Swaledale Ewes Cheese, Teviotdale Cheese, Traditional Welsh Cider, Traditional Welsh Perry, Vale of Clwyd Denbigh Plum, Vale of Evesham Asparagus, West Wales Coracle Caught Salmon, West Wales Coracle Caught Sewin, Whitstable Oysters, Worcestershire Cider, Worcestershire Perry and Yorkshire Forced Rhubarb.

Answered by Greg Hands - Minister of State (Department for Business and Trade)

I refer the Honourable Member to response UIN 20567, tabled on 26 March 2024.

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Deposited Papers

Nov. 30 2010

Source Page: Review of alcohol taxation. 26 p.
Document: DEP2010-2120.pdf (PDF)

Found: A change to the definition of cider has already been made to increase the duty on cheap, strong ciders

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Select Committee

Annex - Geographical indicators in the UK-Japan CEPA

Correspondence Mar. 06 2024

Committee: International Agreements Committee

Found: beverages have secured GI status in Japan: o English Wine o English Regional Wine o Herefordshire Cider

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Non-Departmental Publication (Guidance and Regulation)
Environment Agency

Mar. 06 2024

Source Page: HR4 0LE, Heineken UK Limited: environmental permit issued – EPR/BN3138IG/V009
Document: HR4 0LE, Heineken UK Limited: environmental permit issued – EPR/BN3138IG/V009 (webpage)

Found: UK Limited: environmental permit issued – EPR/BN3138IG/V009 View the permit issued for Bulmers Cider

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Non-Departmental Publication (Guidance and Regulation)
HM Revenue & Customs

Jan. 29 2024

Source Page: How to work out your Alcohol Duty rates if you’re eligible for Small Producer Relief
Document: How to work out your Alcohol Duty rates if you’re eligible for Small Producer Relief (webpage)

Found: 450 to 900 2.86 3,151.03 6 900 to 1,350 0.00 4,438.03 7 1,350 to 4,500 -1.41 4,438.03 Still cider

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Non-Departmental Publication (Services)
HM Revenue & Customs

Mar. 01 2024

Source Page: Notify HMRC of cash payments for alcohol in duty suspension (W7)
Document: Notify HMRC of cash payments for alcohol in duty suspension (W7) (webpage)

Found: and Owners of Warehoused Goods Regulations 1999 (WOWGR) and persons registered or licenced for beer, cider

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Non-Departmental Publication (Guidance and Regulation)
Environment Agency

Dec. 12 2023

Source Page: BA4 5ND, Brothers Drinks Co. Limited: environmental permit issued - EPR/HP3833YZ/V002
Document: BA4 5ND, Brothers Drinks Co. Limited: environmental permit issued - EPR/HP3833YZ/V002 (webpage)

Found: Limited: environmental permit issued - EPR/HP3833YZ/V002 View the permit issued for Showerings Cider

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Non-Departmental Publication (Guidance and Regulation)
Environment Agency

Mar. 06 2024

Source Page: HR4 0LE, Heineken UK Limited: environmental permit issued – EPR/BN3138IG/V009
Document: Variation Notice: Heineken UK Limited (PDF)

Found: note The Environmental Permitting (England & Wales) Regulations 2016 Heineken UK Limited Bulmers Cider

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