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Greg Mulholland: It is not clear, and I do not believe that there is sufficient understanding of the reality of pub investment. I suggest that Ministers in the Department and other Members read an excellent article in The Publican’s Morning Advertiser by Robert Sayles, published on 6 January 2015, which exposes part of the myth that has been created by pubcos and their supporters. For instance, in 2015...
Nicholas Winterton: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer (1) if he will freeze beer duty; and if he will make a statement; (2) what assessment he has made of the effect of beer duty on profitability in the brewing industry; (3) if he will introduce measures to assist investment and growth in the UK brewing industry; and if he will make a statement; (4) what assessment he has made of the contribution made...
Andrew Griffiths: ...viable for them to do that. However, there is one element of my constituency where the Budget was not so well received. It is fitting that the former chairman of the all-party parliamentary beer group should be in the Chair when I make these points. I must declare an interest as the MP for Burton, the home of British beer—the home of Marston’s Pedigree and Carling Black Label, and...
Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts: ...carry with them, about which we heard from the noble Lord, Lord Snape, and about which other noble Lords clearly have similar concerns. Noble Lords will know that I do not believe that changing the pub tie in any event is any more than a marginal answer to the fundamental challenges faced by the pub trade. The real challenges are: cheap beer in the supermarket at £1.13 a pint, compared to...
Richard Younger-Ross: I agree entirely with the hon. Gentleman's point about the pub industry, but Members should reflect that there was an opportunity to toughen the legislation relating to big pub companies. In the last Parliament, we had a debate on the beer orders that were brought in by the Conservatives to give greater flexibility to pubs, and the response of this Government was not to toughen the...
Greg Mulholland: ...can, and indeed should, introduce local planning policies to deal with the kind of problems that we have heard about. Will he therefore join my condemnation and that of the all-party save the pub group of the extraordinary decision taken by the British Beer and Pub Association to seek to overturn Cambridge city council’s elected policy for pubs, given that that is what the council wants...
Jo Swinson: The Government’s intention is that all pub-owning companies with tied tenants, including family brewers but not micro-businesses, should be in scope of the measures for a Pubs Code and Pubs Code Adjudicator in Part 4 of the Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Bill. The Government published a revised draft Pubs Code on 14 November which reflects a number of requirements we consider it...
Greg Mulholland: The House will have noticed that, since his Budget, the Chancellor has been barred from pubs around the country for raising the duty on beer when the pub trade is facing such difficult times. The move will not raise the predicted amount of revenue, but it will be the final nail in the coffin for many pubs. Is the right hon. Gentleman prepared to consider another Budget U-turn, or is he...
Edward Leigh: There is no question of having to serve flat beer in Scotland. I am only implementing the weights and measures legislation that the previous Labour Government introduced. I should be interested to see whether an Opposition Front-Bench spokesman will intervene on this point. Surely we all agree that no one should be served a short measure. If one pays for a pint of beer, one should get a pint...
James Cartlidge: The Government is unable to speculate on the content of the Spring Budget, which takes place on 15 March. Since the beer duty escalator ended in 2012, the beer and pub industry have benefitted from beer duty being cut or frozen for 10 out the last 11 fiscal events. In addition to this, on 19 December the Government extended the current alcohol duty freeze by six months to align with the...
Lee Anderson: ...open. However, my wife is not happy with the Chancellor, because I put a stone on in weight in August, which meant I needed bigger clothes. Jono Edwards, who owns the world-famous Junction Bar & Restaurant, is very happy with the Chancellor. Jono tells me that without the Chancellor’s support his bar would have closed and his staff, who are like a family to him, would have lost their...
Bob Seely: I support so much of this Budget, which was superb, with the cut in business rates and, especially, the beer duty freeze. Will the Minister agree to meet me and pub owners from the Isle of Wight, because there is still a problem with the way that publicans—small business owners—are being treated by the big pub companies, especially Enterprise Inns, which has quite an aggressive business...
...about alcohol-related harms, which we all care about. We want to take a nuanced view. Just because we have, on occasion, frozen some of the duty categories—in this Budget, we have done it for beer, spirits and cider, although not for wine —that does not mean that we are oblivious to those concerns. That area is led primarily by Public Health England and the Department of Health and...
Janet Dean: ...from constituents who work in the gaming machine industry. I want to speak out not only for those who are directly employed in the industry but for those who work in local businesses and who manage pub estates. The argument for restricting pubs to up to two all-cash machines is not valid. I would go so far as to say that it is total nonsense to suggest that no account should be taken of...
Danny Alexander: This Government have undoubtedly been positive for beer and pubs. Many hon. Members, including my hon. Friend the Member for Leeds North West (Greg Mulholland), have campaigned on this issue. It is of course for the Chancellor to announce the Government’s decisions in this respect—I am sure that he has not pulled all those pints himself—but it is certainly the case that the beer and...
John Healey: We now quit cigarettes and move on to beer. Clause 3 increases, in line with general inflation, the excise duty charged on beer. That is part of a broader package of decisions on alcohol duty that continue progress towards the Government’s long-term aim of achieving a fairer balance of taxation across all alcohol products without imposing real-terms increases on those, such as beer, that...
Emma Lewell-Buck: ...at all that they are contributing to the spread of the virus. This was a policy, not a health decision. I heard the Minister’s earlier response, but if the Government really do not want to see our pub doors closed forever, why have they not listened to the requests from the British Beer and Pub Association and uplifted the current grants on offer?
...ACS) PR 17 British Transport Police (BTP) and British Transport Police Authority (BTPA) PR 18 John Gaunt and Partners PR 19 The Association of Police Authority Chief Executives (APACE) PR 20 British Beer & Pub Association (BBPA) PR 21 The Electoral Commission PR 22 Greene King Plc PR 23 Gustav MacLeod PR 24 Staffordshire Police Authority PR 25 Philip Liddell PR 26 Campaign for Real Ale...
Brandon Lewis: ...closely with communities concerning assets of community value. Supporting the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) in their ‘List your Local’ campaign to get 300 communities to have listed their local pub by the end of 2013. Hosting a seminar in July 2013 facilitated by DCLG, CAMRA, Pub is the Hub, Plunkett Foundation, Locality and Co-ops UK. Communities were invited to come along and discuss...
John Healey: I hope that I can answer the hon. Gentleman's points during my brief remarks on the clause. Clause 2 increases the rate of excise duty charged on beer by 3.01 per cent. in line with general inflation. As the hon. Gentleman said, that has generally been accepted, and I, like him, have received no fierce representations against the rise. Excise duties on alcohol provide a crucial £7 billion a...
