Government Hospitality: Wines
(asked on 11th December 2017) - View Source
Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of the effect of the UK leaving the EU on the cost of purchases for the Government Hospitality Wine Cellar.
This question was answered on 19th December 2017
The Government Hospitality wine cellar is currently self-financing. New purchases are funded from sales of older stock. We do not anticipate that the costs of the small-scale purchases made for the cellar will be significantly affected by the departure of the UK from the EU. In 2016-17, 49% of purchases by volume were of English wines.