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date	25/01/2022
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Alcoholic Drinks: 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 implications for Government policies on alcohol duty and reducing consumption of the findings of the research, The COVID-19 alcohol paradox: British household purchases during 2020 compared with 2015-2019 by Anderson et al, published on 19 January 2022.
tabling member constituency	Stockton North
tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
uin	111568
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/01/2022 answer text The Government continues to monitor the evidence on public health and alcohol-related harms to develop alcohol duty policy. We welcome contributions from stakeholders, including academic reports, and we will be analysing evidence provided as part of our consultation on reforms to alcohol duty. answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 28/01/2022 09:28:10 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

1415778

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date	24/01/2022
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Personal Care Services: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what plans he has to provide grant support to people working in the hair and beauty industry.
tabling member constituency	Stockton North
tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
uin	110348
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/01/2022 answer text <p>In December we announced a generous £1bn package of support for business and their employees to help them manage the effects of the rapid surge of Omicron. This includes a £102m top-up to the Additional Restrictions Grant (ARG), a discretionary fund delivered by local authorities in England. This is in addition to the £250m of ARG which local authorities report is left over from previous allocations. This scheme is open until 31 March 2022 and I encourage people and businesses impacted by the Omicron variant to contact their local authority.</p><p> </p><p>The Government also continues to support small businesses through the VAT threshold, currently higher than any EU member state.</p><p> </p><p>For those on low income whose earnings continue to be affected by Covid-19 restrictions, work coaches will continue to be able to suspend the Universal Credit Minimum Income Floor on an individual basis for up to six months.</p><p> </p><p>Thanks to our decisive action to implement balanced and proportionate measures in response to the Omicron variant, Cabinet has decided to return to Plan A in England.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 27/01/2022 15:56:24 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

1404827

registered interest
date	20/01/2022
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Alcoholic Drinks: Excise Duties
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment his Department has made on the impact of the proposed alcohol duty system on (a) health inequalities and (b) wider inequality.
tabling member constituency	Stockton North
tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
uin	108520
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/01/2022 answer text <p>To better support public health, the Government intends to move to a new system that taxes all products in reference to their alcohol content for the first time. This will help to target problem drinking by taxing higher-strength products associated with alcohol-related harm a higher rate of duty.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is continuing to engage with interested stakeholders, including public health professionals, on these reforms. A consultation was launched in October and stakeholders are encouraged to respond before the deadline of 30 January 2022. A tax information and impact note will be published following the consultation when the policy is final, or near final, in the usual way.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 25/01/2022 08:00:55 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham