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1700606

	registered interest
	date	12/04/2024
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Wines: Excise Duties
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether the temporary easement for wine products will end on 1 February 2025.
	tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
	tabling member printed	Dan Carden
	uin	21491
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/04/2024 answer text <p>As part of the new alcohol duty system, the Government introduced the temporary wine easement. During this period, all wine between 11.5-14.5% alcohol by volume (ABV) will pay duty as if it were 12.5% ABV. The temporary wine easement will last until 1 February 2025, giving the wine industry over two years to adapt to the new system.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is closely monitoring the impact of the recent reforms and will evaluate the impact of the new rates and structures three years after the changes took effect on 1 August 2023. This will allow time to understand the impacts on the alcohol market, and for HMRC to gather useful and accurate data with which to evaluate the effects of the reform.</p><p>As with all taxes, the Government keeps the alcohol duty system under review during its yearly Budget process.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Gareth Davies question first answered 17/04/2024 15:05:03 answering member 4850 label Biography information for Gareth Davies
	tabling member	4651 label Biography information for Dan Carden

1693322

	registered interest
	date	04/03/2024
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Wines: Excise Duties
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if his Department will make an assessment of the potential merits of extending the eligibility criteria for the Small Producer Relief to include English and Welsh wine producers.
	tabling member constituency	Ashford
	tabling member printed	Damian Green
	uin	16582
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/03/2024 answer text <p>Small Producer Relief (SPR) was introduced as part of the new alcohol duty system on 1 August 2023. SPR provides a duty discount for all producers who produce less than 4,500 hectolitres of pure alcohol on their products below 8.5% alcohol by volume (ABV).</p><p>Retaining a strength limit for SPR is important to ensure the relief is aligned with the new alcohol duty system's public health objectives. Wine producers are able to claim the relief on any goods they make below this level.</p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Gareth Davies question first answered 07/03/2024 15:34:34 answering member 4850 label Biography information for Gareth Davies
	tabling member	76 label Biography information for Damian Green

1692510

	registered interest
	date	28/02/2024
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Wines: Excise Duties
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the impact of raising wine duty on revenue raised by his Department.
	tabling member constituency	Bermondsey and Old Southwark
	tabling member printed	Neil Coyle
	uin	16164
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/03/2024 answer text <p>The Government will make and announce any alcohol decisions at Spring Budget 2024. Duty freezes to alcohol duty over the last decade have amounted to a total tax cut of £12.9 billion to the alcohol industry, including the duty freeze up to 1 August 2024 announced at Autumn Statement 2023.</p><p>Before Autumn Statement 2023, since ending the duty escalator for wine in 2013, the wine industry has benefitted from cuts or freezes to wine duty at four out of the last nine fiscal events.</p><p>The latest receipts for alcohol duty including wine duty can be found at the following link:</p><p><a href="http://Alcohol%20Bulletin%20commentary%20(November%202023%20to%20January%202024)%20-%20GOV.UK%20(www.gov.uk)" target="_blank">Alcohol Bulletin commentary (November 2023 to January 2024) - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a></p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Gareth Davies grouped question UIN 16161 question first answered 04/03/2024 15:10:22 answering member 4850 label Biography information for Gareth Davies
	tabling member	4368 label Biography information for Neil Coyle

1692507

	registered interest
	date	28/02/2024
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Wines: Excise Duties
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will take steps to reduce excise duty on wine.
	tabling member constituency	Bermondsey and Old Southwark
	tabling member printed	Neil Coyle
	uin	16161
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/03/2024 answer text <p>The Government will make and announce any alcohol decisions at Spring Budget 2024. Duty freezes to alcohol duty over the last decade have amounted to a total tax cut of £12.9 billion to the alcohol industry, including the duty freeze up to 1 August 2024 announced at Autumn Statement 2023.</p><p>Before Autumn Statement 2023, since ending the duty escalator for wine in 2013, the wine industry has benefitted from cuts or freezes to wine duty at four out of the last nine fiscal events.</p><p>The latest receipts for alcohol duty including wine duty can be found at the following link:</p><p><a href="http://Alcohol%20Bulletin%20commentary%20(November%202023%20to%20January%202024)%20-%20GOV.UK%20(www.gov.uk)" target="_blank">Alcohol Bulletin commentary (November 2023 to January 2024) - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a></p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Gareth Davies grouped question UIN 16164 question first answered 04/03/2024 15:10:22 answering member 4850 label Biography information for Gareth Davies
	tabling member	4368 label Biography information for Neil Coyle

1692508

	registered interest
	date	28/02/2024
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Wines: Excise Duties
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of making the easement for levying wine duty permanent.
	tabling member constituency	Bermondsey and Old Southwark
	tabling member printed	Neil Coyle
	uin	16162
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/03/2024 answer text <p>As part of the new alcohol duty system, the Government introduced a wine easement for 18 months which will last until February 2025. During this period, all wine between 11.5-14.5% alcohol by volume (ABV) will pay duty as if it were 12.5% ABV. This gives the wine industry over two years to adapt to the new system.</p><p>The Government is closely monitoring the impact of the recent reforms and will evaluate the impact of the new rates and structures three years after the changes took effect on 1 August 2023. This will allow time to understand the impacts on the alcohol market, and for HMRC to gather useful and accurate data with which to evaluate the effects of the reform.</p><p>As with all taxes, the Government keeps the alcohol duty system under review during its yearly Budget process.</p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Gareth Davies question first answered 04/03/2024 14:45:24 answering member 4850 label Biography information for Gareth Davies
	tabling member	4368 label Biography information for Neil Coyle

1687961

	registered interest
	date	06/02/2024
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Wines: Excise Duties
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he has made an assessment of the potential impact of ending the temporary duty easement for wines between 11.5% and 14.5% alcohol by volume on small and medium-sized wine businesses in the UK.
	tabling member constituency	St Albans
	tabling member printed	Daisy Cooper
	uin	13409
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/02/2024 answer text <p>As part of the new alcohol duty system, the Government introduced a temporary wine easement for 18 months. Until February 2025, all wine between 11.5-14.5% alcohol by volume (ABV) will pay duty as if it were 12.5% ABV. This means the wine industry will have had over two years to adapt to the new system.</p><p>The Government is closely monitoring the impact of the recent reforms and will evaluate the impact of the new rates and structures three years after the changes took effect on 1 August 2023. This will allow time to understand the impacts on the alcohol market, and for HMRC to gather useful and accurate data with which to evaluate the effects of the reform.</p><p>As with all taxes, the Government keeps the alcohol duty system under review during its yearly Budget process.</p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Gareth Davies question first answered 14/02/2024 12:05:45 answering member 4850 label Biography information for Gareth Davies
	tabling member	4769 label Biography information for Daisy Cooper

1641142

	registered interest
	date	02/06/2023
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Wines: Excise Duties
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the changes to the rates of Alcohol Duty on the wine industry.
	tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
	tabling member printed	Paula Barker
	uin	187213
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/06/2023 answer text <p>The Government published a Tax Information and Impact Note setting out the assessment of impacts from changes to the duty rates made at the Spring Budget 2023.</p><p> </p><p>The Government had to make some tough decisions at Spring Budget in line with its commitment to managing the UK economy responsibly. However, prior to this, the wine industry has benefitted from freezes at 4 out of the last 5 fiscal events. Further, through the Government’s historic alcohol duty reforms, we are standardising the treatment of still and sparkling wine, providing a substantial duty cut for sparkling wine. In addition, lighter wines below 10.4% will pay less duty from 1 August.</p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Gareth Davies question first answered 07/06/2023 07:52:55 answering member 4850 label Biography information for Gareth Davies
	tabling member	4828 label Biography information for Paula Barker

1641275

	registered interest
	date	02/06/2023
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Wines: Excise Duties
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make it his policy to freeze the duty band for wine of 11.5 per cent to 14.5 per cent.
	tabling member constituency	Hendon
	tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
	uin	187166
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/06/2023 answer text <p>The duty band for wine between 11.5 and 14.5 per cent is a temporary provision to help the wine industry transition to the new alcohol duty system. From February 2025, the wine easement will come to an end and wine will be taxed according to its strength to ensure consistency of treatment across all categories of alcohol.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>All decisions on alcohol duty rates are reserved for the Chancellor as part of his Budget process and will be taken during the fiscal event cycle in the usual way.</p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Gareth Davies question first answered 06/06/2023 14:14:21 answering member 4850 label Biography information for Gareth Davies
	tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

1611701

	registered interest
	date	18/04/2023
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Wines: Excise Duties
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the potential effect of increases in the level of alcohol duty on international wine trading in the UK.
	tabling member constituency	Battersea
	tabling member printed	Marsha De Cordova
	uin	181245
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/04/2023 answer text <p>The Government published a Tax Information and Impact Note setting out the assessment of impacts from changes to the duty rates made at the Spring Budget 2023. The wine industry has benefitted from freezes at 4 out of the last 5 fiscal events.</p><p> </p><p>As with all taxes, the Government keeps the alcohol duty system under review and welcomes representations from stakeholders to inform policy development.</p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Gareth Davies question first answered 25/04/2023 11:31:14 answering member 4850 label Biography information for Gareth Davies
	tabling member	4676 label Biography information for Marsha De Cordova

1610459

	registered interest
	date	14/04/2023
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Wines: Excise Duties
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether his Department has made a recent assessment of the potential impact of planned wine duty increases on (a) elasticity of demand and (b) forecast levels of future revenue to the Exchequer from alcohol duty.
	tabling member constituency	Altrincham and Sale West
	tabling member printed	Sir Graham Brady
	uin	180592
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/04/2023 answer text <p>The Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) published its latest Economic and Fiscal Outlook report in March 2023. The publication contained an alcohol duty revenue forecast up to and including 2027-28 and was inclusive of all planned changes to alcohol duties including wine duty increases.</p><p> </p><p>Table 2.12 in the supplementary tables published alongside the Economic and Fiscal Outlook report contains separate clearance and receipt forecasts by type of alcohol.</p> answering member constituency South Suffolk answering member printed James Cartlidge question first answered 20/04/2023 11:01:16 answering member 4519 label Biography information for James Cartlidge
	tabling member	435 label Biography information for Sir Graham Brady