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Commons Chamber
Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation - Wed 03 Mar 2021
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Peter Bottomley (CON - Worthing West) As someone who drinks—I try not to do it when I am driving—my prediction is that the revenues from spirits - Speech Link
2: Tobias Ellwood (CON - Bournemouth East) continuation of the business rates holiday, the extension of the VAT cut and the freeze on alcohol duties - Speech Link
3: Edward Leigh (CON - Gainsborough) changes to stamp duty; 256 changes to VAT; 53 changes to tobacco duty; and 258 changes to vehicle excise - Speech Link
4: Mike Wood (CON - Dudley South) and hospitality—the restart grants; the freeze on VAT for hospitality and tourism; the freeze on duties - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Finance Bill (Seventh sitting)
Committee stage: 7th sitting - Tue 16 Jun 2020
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Jesse Norman (CON - Hereford and South Herefordshire) Friend and I are sharing the duties on the Front Bench today, and it is I who rises to speak to clauses - Speech Link
2: Stephen Flynn (SNP - Aberdeen South) The amendment is quite simple and would require the Government to review the impact of alcohol duties - Speech Link
3: Wes Streeting (LAB - Ilford North) The clause amends the Alcoholic Liquor Duties Act 1979, to introduce sanctions for post duty point dilution - Speech Link
4: Kemi Badenoch (CON - Saffron Walden) The clause also specifies that for the minimum excise tax—the minimum amount of duty to be paid on a - Speech Link
5: Kemi Badenoch (CON - Saffron Walden) As a result, all new motorhomes will move to a flat rate of vehicle excise duty. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Beer and Pub Taxation - Wed 05 Feb 2020
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Mike Wood (CON - Dudley South) Seven in 10 of the alcoholic drinks sold in pubs are beer, and beer accounts for more than half of a - Speech Link
2: Mike Wood (CON - Dudley South) The excise revenue from beer is up £250 million compared with Treasury forecasts since 2017-18. - Speech Link
3: Siobhain McDonagh (LAB - Mitcham and Morden) explain that if a brewery produces less than 5,000 hectolitres per year, it pays 50% of the full excise - Speech Link
4: Kirsten Oswald (SNP - East Renfrewshire) Gentleman agree that, in setting alcohol duties and regulating the price of alcohol, which the Scottish - Speech Link
5: Stephen Flynn (SNP - Aberdeen South) We certainly support the reform of beer excise duty, but we need to look at taxation holistically and - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Beer Duty Rates - Tue 25 Jun 2019
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Hugh Gaffney (LAB - Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill) I am a non-alcoholic. I do not drink. - Speech Link
2: Andrew Griffiths (CON - Burton) we have seen because of responsible actions by brewers is a reduction in the alcohol by volume in drinks - Speech Link
3: Andrew Griffiths (CON - Burton) Seven out of 10 alcoholic drinks purchased in a pub are beer, so if we want to help pubs, doing something - Speech Link
4: Jesse Norman (CON - Hereford and South Herefordshire) duties applicable to alcohol products. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Beer Taxation and Pubs - Thu 28 Mar 2019
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Mike Wood (CON - Dudley South) Crucially, seven in 10 alcoholic drinks sold in pubs are beer. - Speech Link
2: Bill Grant (CON - Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock) As a nation we need to have a balanced approach to the provision of alcoholic drinks, their sale, their - Speech Link
3: Adrian Bailey (LAB - West Bromwich West) There is obviously a case for looking at alcohol duties. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Anderson of Stoke-on-Trent (LAB - Life peer) Friend has touched on the fact that there are differential duties. - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Finance (No. 3) Bill (Sixth sitting) - Tue 04 Dec 2018
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Peter Dowd (LAB - Bootle) Duties on alcoholic drinks are forecast to raise £11.5 billion this year, split between beer and cider - Speech Link
2: None In his spring statement—the Budget—the Chancellor announced that excise duties for alcohol would be increased - Speech Link
3: None Is it enough to simply address mid-strength ciders while continuing to freeze wider alcohol duties? - Speech Link
4: None Duties on sparkling cider will increase by RPI in line with inflation. [Interruption.] - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Budget Resolutions
1st reading: House of Commons - Thu 01 Nov 2018
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: None duty under the Alcoholic Liquor Duties Act 1979, the Hydrocarbon Oil Duties Act 1979 or the Tobacco - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Taxation: Beer and Pubs - Tue 31 Oct 2017
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) to be approaching the limit, even if the drinks are not completely drained. - Speech Link
2: John Lamont (CON - Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk) A certain level of taxation also reduces consumption, so targeting the problem areas, such as drinks - Speech Link
3: Gill Furniss (LAB - Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough) On the other hand, duties on other alcoholic drinks, including wine at or below 22% alcohol by volume - Speech Link
4: Andrew Jones (CON - Harrogate and Knaresborough) European Union law requires member states to charge excise duty on all alcohol and alcoholic beverages - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Alcohol Abuse - Thu 30 Mar 2017
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe (LAB - Life peer) duties on alcohol so that low-alcohol drinks would not contribute anything, or very little indeed, in - Speech Link
2: Baroness Walmsley (LDEM - Life peer) Will he ask the Chancellor to increase the general cost of alcoholic drinks? - Speech Link
3: Lord O'Shaughnessy (CON - Life peer) This includes a drinks tracker app to help drinkers identify risky behaviour and lower their alcohol - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Budget Resolutions
1st reading: House of Commons - Tue 14 Mar 2017
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Lindsay Hoyle (Speaker - Chorley) of the employment, and(ii) does not use the asset otherwise than in the performance of the duties of - Speech Link