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UIN 95616

Tobacco: Excise Duties

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1 December 2025

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4 December 2025 · Answer

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Summary

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, for what reason tobacco duty increased above the rate of inflation in the Autumn Budget 2025.

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  1. 1 December 2025

    Written question

    To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, for what reason tobacco duty increased above the rate of inflation in the Autumn Budget 2025.

    Source: Commons

  2. 4 December 2025

    Answer

    At Autumn Budget 2024, the Government renewed the commitment to a tobacco duty escalator, which increases duty by 2 percent above RPI inflation at each Budget, until the end of the current Parliament. At Autumn Budget 2025, the duty on all tobacco product...

    Source: Written answer

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