Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of reducing beer duty and alcohol duty to help support pubs.

As announced at Autumn Budget 2021, the duty rates on alcohol including beer will be frozen for another year. This is expected to save consumers £3 billion over the coming years and will save beer drinkers in particular £900 million. As a result of cuts and freezes since ending the beer duty escalator in 2013, beer duty is now at its lowest level in real terms since the 1990s. The Government has also announced it will reduce the duty on draught beer by 5% as part of alcohol duty reforms – cutting the duty on a pint of beer served in a pub by 3p.

The Government keeps all taxes under review and any announcements will be made at the next fiscal event.