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Commons Chamber
Police, Crime, Sentencing and Court Bill
Report stage - Mon 05 Jul 2021
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Harriet Harman (LAB - Camberwell and Peckham) the purposes listed in subsection (3), and(c) a police officer acting properly in the course of their duties - Speech Link
2: Robert Goodwill (CON - Scarborough and Whitby) distancing in stores, on top of the existing problems associated with age verification for the purpose of alcoholic - Speech Link
3: Alistair Carmichael (LDEM - Orkney and Shetland) The only amendments we can seek to introduce are those that would excise it from the Bill, where they - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Queen’s Speech - Mon 17 May 2021
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Lord Greenhalgh (CON - Life peer) The Bill will establish the new building safety regulator, with clear duties and responsibilities for - Speech Link
2: Lord Oates (LDEM - Life peer) It should have announced the restoration of differential vehicle excise duty, depending on vehicle emissions - Speech Link
3: Baroness Worthington (CB - Life peer) We have rendered our planet less safe; like an alcoholic who has damaged their body through excessive - Speech Link
4: Lord Rosser (LAB - Life peer) To meet legal duties to balance budgets, already depleted reserves and yet further cuts to already heavily - Speech Link
5: Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park (CON - Life peer) Consultations have been launched on the deposit return scheme for drinks containers, extended producer - Speech Link


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) 68 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) retail 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: Stephen Flynn (SNP - Aberdeen South) Chancellor of the Exchequer must review the expected effects on public health of the changes made to the Alcoholic - Speech Link
2: Alison Thewliss (SNP - Glasgow Central) pricing introduced in Scotland had the effect of removing from our shelves some of the most harmful drinks - 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) It will ensure fairness by providing equity of treatment across the drinks industry and will tackle future - 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: Marie Rimmer (LAB - St Helens South and Whiston) drink as much alcohol as they can before going for a night out at a pub or wine bar, where prices for drinks - Speech Link
4: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) A landlord can give drivers free soft drinks all night or remove keys from someone who is still standing - 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) Seven out of 10 alcoholic drinks purchased in a pub are beer, so if we want to help pubs, doing something - Speech Link
3: Jesse Norman (CON - Hereford and South Herefordshire) the Exchequer has forgone more than £5.2 billion in revenue due to cuts and freezes to all alcohol duties - 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: Peter Dowd (LAB - Bootle) Would it not have been a better approach for the Government simply to reduce the lower band of excise - Speech Link
4: Robert Syms (CON - Poole) The other factor about the drinks industry generally is that it is very regionally diverse, with the - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Budget Resolutions
1st reading: House of Commons - Thu 01 Nov 2018
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

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: Fiona Bruce (CON - Congleton) they do, introducing a new higher band of duty in the forthcoming Budget that applied to cider with an alcoholic - 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