Neil Carmichael
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Beer Duty Escalator
Neil Carmichael Excerpts(11 years, 10 months ago)
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Gavin Williamson
As always, my hon. Friend and fellow Staffordshire Member of Parliament makes an excellent point. We want to encourage investment by our brewers into this vital industry and into our pubs.
Gavin Williamson
Over the last eight years there has been a 50% increase in beer duty but only a 10% increase in revenues from that duty. That is a great concern.
Gavin Williamson
My hon. Friend is bobbing up and down, so I had best give way to him.
Neil Carmichael
We are talking here about small and medium-sized businesses—businesses that employ some 1,600 people in my constituency. My four breweries are very successful small businesses, but they could do with some help in respect of this policy.
Gavin Williamson
All the Members who have intervened have made the most wonderful points, and my hon. Friend certainly has not disappointed in that regard. I am a little disappointed, however, that he did not mention his four breweries for a potential future press release.