Beer Duty Escalator

Part of Backbench Business – in the House of Commons at 2:05 pm on 1 November 2012.

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Photo of Richard Graham Richard Graham Conservative, Gloucester 2:05, 1 November 2012

Does my hon. Friend agree that the British brewing sector, British pubs and the British people have paid a heavy price for the previous Government’s beer duty escalator? May I urge him to hold a review and then do what Treasury Ministers have done to the previous Government’s fuel duty escalator, which is to stop it? In that way, he will deserve a celebratory pint from all my constituents in Gloucester, a pint of beer from the—