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1685303

	registered interest
	date	26/01/2024
	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, whether he has had discussions with the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care on the potential impact of alcohol duty on levels of public health.
	tabling member constituency	Stockton North
	tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
	uin	11608
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/01/2024 answer text <p>Treasury ministers and officials regularly engage with the Department of Health and Social Care on a variety of issues, including alcohol policy. The Treasury also engaged extensively with external stakeholders and other Government departments, including the Department of Health and Social Care, as part of the policy development and delivery process for the new alcohol reforms.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has delivered on its commitment to review the outdated and complex alcohol duty system and introduced the biggest reform of alcohol duties for over 140 years. From 1 August 2023, all alcoholic products are now taxed by strength, putting public health at the heart of alcohol duty.</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 public health, and for HMRC to gather useful and accurate data to evaluate the reform's effects.</p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Gareth Davies question first answered 31/01/2024 12:24:43 answering member 4850 label Biography information for Gareth Davies
	tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

1416560

	registered interest
	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

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

228499

	registered interest
	date	19/03/2015
	answering body	HM 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 Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what meetings Ministers and officials in his Department had with alcohol companies and their representative organisations on alcohol duty between 1 November 2014 and 18 March 2015.
	tabling member constituency	Stockton North
	tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
	uin	228429
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2015 answer text <p>The Treasury Ministers and officials discuss a variety of issues with a range of industry stakeholders throughout the year, including between the dates outlined in the question.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 24/03/2015 17:01:53 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
	tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham