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Commons Chamber
Financial Statement - Wed 08 Mar 2017
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Lord Hammond of Runnymede (CON - Life peer) to £20,000, and the further increase in the personal allowance to £11,500 from April.I now turn to duties - Speech Link
2: Lord Hammond of Runnymede (CON - Life peer) liquor duties (rates) (motion no. 40);(c) Tobacco products duty (rates) (motion no. 42). - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Beer Duty - Tue 07 Mar 2017
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Steve Double (CON - St Austell and Newquay) Seven out of 10 alcoholic drinks sold in pubs are beer, and 82% of those are brewed in the UK. - Speech Link
2: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) To split that up, the duties on beer and cider are expected to raise £3.6 billion, whereas the duties - Speech Link
3: Owen Thompson (SNP - Midlothian) Scottish food and drinks exports are now worth some £4.8 billion every year. - Speech Link
4: Peter Dowd (LAB - Bootle) On the other hand, duties on all other alcoholic drinks, such as wine at or below 22% alcohol by volume - Speech Link
5: Liz McInnes (LAB - Heywood and Middleton) drinks sold in pubs? - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Health: Duties on Food and Drink - Mon 06 Mar 2017
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe (LAB - Life peer) include, within the recently announced review of VAT, a consideration of the levels of customs and excise - Speech Link
2: Baroness Neville-Rolfe (CON - Life peer) The Government believe that alcohol duties should be related to the alcoholic strength of drinks but, - Speech Link
3: Baroness Neville-Rolfe (CON - Life peer) The lower-strength drinks have lower rates, and there are higher duties on higher-strength beers and - Speech Link
4: Lord Davies of Oldham (LAB - Life peer) drinks and heavy drinking, which need resources? - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Neighbourhood Planning Bill
Report: 2nd sitting (Hansard): House of Lords - Tue 28 Feb 2017
Wales Office

Mentions:
1: None Pubs have the third-highest excise duty rates in the EU for their core product, beer —rates many times - Speech Link
2: Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts (CON - Life peer) remembering that the emergence of the pubcos—companies that only own pubs, buy in all their beer and alcoholic - Speech Link
3: Lord Kennedy of Southwark (LAB - Life peer) The noble Lord, Lord Bilimoria, was right when he spoke about the variety of food and drinks sold in - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Finance Bill (Sixth sitting) - Thu 07 Jul 2016
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Damian Hinds (CON - East Hampshire) Clause 138 makes changes to vehicle excise duty rates for cars, vans and motorcycles, with effect from - Speech Link
2: None Having considered alcoholic liquor duties, we now stagger towards clause 155, with which we will consider - Speech Link
3: Damian Hinds (CON - East Hampshire) It will make the operational duties of officers of Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs more effective. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Financial Statement - Wed 16 Mar 2016
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: George Osborne (CON - Tatton) Some popular drinks have as many as 13 teaspoons. - Speech Link
2: None (c) Alcoholic liquor duties (rates) (Motion no. 63.)— (Mr Osborne.)Question agreed to. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Scotch Whisky Industry - Wed 09 Mar 2016
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Patricia Gibson (SNP - North Ayrshire and Arran) If we cut excise duty, the revenues will go up, not down. - Speech Link
2: Gavin Newlands (SNP - Paisley and Renfrewshire North) What is more, with less than 9% of the EU population, UK consumers pay 25% of all EU spirit duties. - Speech Link
3: Rebecca Long Bailey (LAB - Salford and Eccles) Members raised points about excise duty. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Queen’s Speech - Wed 03 Jun 2015
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Lord Nash (CON - Life peer) commitment to have the highest employment rate of any major economy we are also introducing statutory duties - Speech Link
2: Lord Rea (LAB - Excepted Hereditary) consider bringing in regulations to restrict the sale and promotion of these obesogenic food and drinks - Speech Link
3: Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe (LAB - Life peer) Most alcoholic drinks contain sugar, some in very large amounts indeed. - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Deregulation Bill - Thu 06 Nov 2014
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Wallace of Saltaire (LDEM - Life peer) of the chief executive so that these duties will in future apply, as appropriate, to the Secretary - Speech Link
2: None In practical terms, the duties to secure the provision of facilities for education and training will - Speech Link
3: None They should be asking themselves why the drinks industry wants it. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Scotch Whisky Excise Duty - Wed 08 Jan 2014
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Gemma Doyle (LAB - West Dunbartonshire) I would not take that away from them, but we need a more coherent look at excise duty across alcohol - Speech Link
2: Baroness Morgan of Cotes (CON - Life peer) Secondly, and related to that, Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs will shortly be launching its spirit drinks - Speech Link
3: Baroness Morgan of Cotes (CON - Life peer) These rises were for all alcohol duties and, as I say, were legislated for by the previous Government.This - Speech Link
4: Baroness Morgan of Cotes (CON - Life peer) Gentleman asked whether the Government had failed to consider other alcohol duties. - Speech Link
5: Baroness Morgan of Cotes (CON - Life peer) The spirits duty rate was frozen between 1998 and 2008, and during that time duty rates on other alcoholic - Speech Link