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Mr Arthur Lewis: I will develop the point made by my hon. Friend the Member for Widnes (Mr. Oakes). The working man's usual dining place is the pub—when he happens to be in employment. That is rare under this Government, but under a Labour Government working men were getting high incomes and the cost of living was lower, and many of the workers in my constituency used to have their lunch or, as they called...
Eric Illsley: ...legal purchase age cannot buy alcoholic drinks, and avoiding any forms of marketing or promotion that have particular appeal to young people. Those are the guidelines applicable to pubs. The British Beer and Pub Association has a document on point-of-sale promotion. BBPA members are committed to the responsible management of licensed premises and the responsible promotion of their brands....
Nicky Morgan: It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship this morning, Mr Caton. The clause sets out the alcohol duty rates from 2014-15. It takes a penny off the tax on a typical pint of beer, freezes the duty on ordinary cider and freezes the duty on spirits to help the Scottish whisky industry, and limits the increase on wine duty to inflation. As we have just heard—my hon. Friend the Member...
Simon Clarke: You benefit from experience in this. You probably know, as I do, that the tied tenants are effectively setting the price of a pint of beer. That is determined by the gross profit they achieve, the cost of running the pub and some sort of margin for themselves. Many of them are squeaking by; we know that 80% are on £15,000 or less, and the price of a pint at the bar is just...
Andrew Lansley: ...smoking ban in those premises or not. Conditions could be applied in regulations, to make distinctions about where smoking would be permitted within premises. For example, the recommendation in the Beer and Pub Association's code about smoking at the bar could be incorporated into regulations relating to clubs.
Marie Rimmer: ...rights originate from people sitting down in the local and planning for a better world: democracy, workers’ rights, trade unions. All of those had many of their roots in this country in the local pub. Even today, pubs play an important role. They are where we celebrate our success in work, love and life. It is where we cheer on our nations in sport and mourn our losses in wakes, raising...
Andrew Griffiths: Holding answer received on 16 January 2018 The Government does not make assessments of the impact bank, post office, building society branch, or pub closures have on the sustainability of high streets. While the decision to close a branch remains a commercial judgement for individual banks and building societies, the impact on communities must be understood, considered and mitigated...
Mike Wood: I share the sadness whenever a well-used pub closes for any reason, and there is a particular impact on the community when that pub is a heritage building in a town, city or village. Last autumn, 116,000 people up and down the country signed the Long Live the Local campaign—many of them emailing their MPs. It was launched by Britain’s Beer Alliance, and quickly garnered public support...
Greg Mulholland: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what meetings his Department has had with (a) pub companies, (b) the British Beer and Pub Association, (c) members of the British Beer and Pub Association, (d) Independent Family Brewers of Britain and (e) members of Independent Family Brewers of Britain.
Jane Ellison: HM Treasury engages with a wide variety of organisations to understand industry developments, including the beer and pub industry. This includes considering external reports like that of the British Beer and Pub Association, which estimated that by 2016/17 there will be 21,000 more jobs in the pub industry, than if the duty escalator had continued until 2015.
Miss Melanie Johnson: .... I cannot respond on the particular, but it may be helpful if I set out some more general observations on the brewing industry as a whole and on competition within the sector. Historically, the beer sector was and remains the most important alcoholic drink industry in terms of UK production. Both consumption and production of beer have fallen in the past 10 years. Since 1989, the beer...
Jennifer Willott: The Government values the pub industry, recognises the important contribution that pubs make to the fabric of local communities, and to jobs and growth in the wider economy. The Government has introduced a number of measures to help pubs. In Budget 2013 the Government announced the end of the beer duty escalator and cut beer duty, so that the tax on a typical pint of beer is 1p lower. In...
Marcus Jones: The Government has helped to support the pub trade by cutting beer duty, scrapping the beer duty escalators and introducing business rate discounts for small businesses, benefitting three out of four pubs. The Department is providing £350,000 funding support via Pub is the Hub and the Plunkett Foundation to help communities to own their local pub and to incorporate other community services...
Andrew Griffiths: I agree with my hon. Friend, because I have seen that in action. Does he agree that one great way to support the great British pub is by doing something on beer duty? Seven out of 10 alcoholic drinks purchased in a pub are beer, so if we want to help pubs, doing something specifically on beer is the way to do it.
Toby Perkins: ...I congratulate the hon. Member for Dudley South (Mike Wood) on securing this incredibly important debate and the vigour with which he is going about his role as chair of the all-party parliamentary beer group. As chair of the all-party parliamentary group on pubs, I also feel very strongly about the issues that have been raised. I am not going to repeat all the statistics that the hon....
Priti Patel: ...and commended as well. I will take him up on his offer; he is very welcome to come and meet me at the Treasury. As my hon. Friend the Member for Burton pointed out, the previous Government’s beer duty escalator hit the industry hard. It led to pub closures and cost people their jobs. Of course, we have made changes to the escalator. In recognition of what happened in the past, we went on...
David Cameron: I know of my hon. Friend’s long-standing interest in not only beer, but pubs and how pub landlords are treated, particularly by the pub companies. Let me look very carefully at what he said. I am a great believer in a healthy pub industry. Pubs are often the heart of the village and the heart of our communities, and I will look carefully at the beer report that he mentions.
Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts: ...not be talking about the Black Bull, Mansfield, which is one of the pubs on which I have some evidence for the noble Lord. We will discuss this at a later stage. There are two types of integrated pub. The first, called integrated operators, are companies that brew beer and sell it through their own estate, whether managed by employees or tenants in tied pubs. They sell their beers also...
Chris Leslie: The clause provides for increases in the rates of excise duties charged on spirits, wine and made-wine, and cider and perry, and for overall reductions in the rates of excise duty on beer, to have effect on or after 25 March 2013. As members of the Committee will be aware, pubs and the beer industry have been calling for a cut in the beer duty for a while now. Members will also remember that...
Edward Davey: holding answer 22 March 2011 The Department, has recently had discussions with representatives from the Independent Pub Confederation, the British Institute of Innkeeping, the British Beer and Pub Association and the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors, in its role of monitoring the pub industry's progress towards self-reform, as set out by the Business, Innovation and Skills Select...
