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Nicky Morgan: The hon. Gentleman’s pub sounds as though it was a very interesting place, and I am very happy to listen to representations on the figures. The hon. Gentleman asked about the impact of Budget 2013 on pubs. The British Beer and Pub Association survey showed that, following a reduction in beer duty, 76% of the pubs would increase investment and 61% would employ more staff. That is why this...
James Paice: I am grateful to my right hon. Friend for giving way. I endorse his comments on the use of the word "bar", which occurs in at least two subsections. From those, it seems that the opportunity for consumption in a part of a pub or licensed premises without a bar would get round the legislation. I do not understand why the word appears at all. If the wording had been "consumption in licensed...
Toby Perkins: ...most able to absorb the costs of new regulation. That is why, throughout the several years that we have been involved in the campaign, the measure of 500 pubs has been used to distinguish the large pub companies—about which we, as MPs, receive most complaints from our constituents—from smaller, independent, local or family brewers. For example, back in January 2013, a day before...
Rebecca Pow: ...a Tourism Sector Deal. This Deal recognises the significant contribution of pubs to local economies and the tourism sector; for example, 42% of international visits include at least one visit to a pub. The Government considers pubs to be a crucial element in the employment ecosystem of the Tourism Sector workforce, and has announced that the British Beer and Pub Association will be...
George Eustice: ...a value of nearly £600 million last year. Last week, I visited the Griffin Brewery in Chiswick, run by Fuller Smith & Turner, to launch a new British beer export strategy with the British Beer and Pub Association. Fuller’s now exports to more than 80 countries and is one example of our successes with exports. We have regular discussions with the Treasury on the beer industry’s...
Brandon Lewis: ...community organisations to take on the community ownership and management of assets that are important to them, including pubs, is in place. We also provide funding for business partners, such as Pub is the Hub and the Plunkett Foundation, to expand their work in helping communities to bring their pubs into community ownership and to diversify or innovate their provision of services. The...
Mr Eric Heffer: ...and I had relatives in Ware in the hon. Gentleman's constituency. I remember that when I was a lad the great thing about Hertford was the number of pubs in the town. In Maidenhead Street there was a pub next to a shop next to a pub next to a shop next to a pub. It was that sort of street and most of Hertford was like that. I doubt whether the people of Maidenhead Street and Fore Street in...
Andrew Griffiths: As the chairman of the all-party parliamentary beer group, I commend the Government for their efforts to tackle the irresponsible pricing of alcohol by supermarkets. Does the Deputy Prime Minister agree that the safest place to drink is in the community pub, that beer is a lower-strength drink, and that scrapping the beer duty escalator would create 5,000 jobs? Will he take his Treasury...
Jo Swinson: ...thriving and diverse pubs sector. We have launched a consultation on establishing a statutory Code of Practice and an independent Adjudicator to enforce the Code, to govern the relationship between pub companies and their tenants. We welcome evidence about the impact such proposals would have on the pubs industry. The consultation and associated short online questionnaire closes on 14...
Helen Whately: As announced at Autumn Budget 2021, the duty rates on alcohol including beer will be frozen for another year. This is expected to save consumers £3 billion over the coming years and will save beer drinkers in particular £900 million. As a result of cuts and freezes since ending the beer duty escalator in 2013, beer duty is now at its lowest level in real terms since the 1990s. The...
Lord Cope of Berkeley: I find proposed new Section 172A(2) extraordinary and, frankly, rather offensive. It requires that if someone is drunk in a pub or other licensed premises and the bar staff fail to control him, and if the bar staff finish up in court, the bar staff somehow have to prove that they "took all reasonable steps" to prevent drunkenness in the premises. The burden of proof is reversed. The...
Pat Catney: ...principle are the supermarket off-licences because they buy the bulk of those licences. I bought two extended licences in County Tyrone and brought them to Belfast where I opened the Laurel Glen Bar and the Portside Inn with them. So, at least I bought a licence and brought it back and was able to use it again in a public house. As a bar owner once put it to me, a supermarket off-licence...
Greg Mulholland: ...I will take interventions only from Members who have told me that they want to intervene, one of whom is the hon. Member for Easington (Grahame M. Morris), the vice-chair of the all-party save the pub group. Moreover, given that the Secretary of State will be able to say very little in response to the debate because of the current stage of the consultation, I have been told that I can...
Gerry Sutcliffe: ...in England and Wales; but rather the number of premises authorising the sale or supply of alcohol by means of a premises licence or a club premises certificate. We understand that CGA Strategy, the pub and drinks market analyst, which tracks the pub closure rate on behalf of the British Beer and Pub Association, currently estimates that between 51 and 53 pubs a week are closing. At 53 per...
Selaine Saxby: This is obviously the time of the evening when we should all be going to the pub or to our much-loved bars here in the House, where I probably owe colleagues who did not get to speak today a pint. I know they would have spoken with passion in support of their hospitality businesses and whetted appetites with their tantalising take-outs. I thank the Minister for his response. He knows that a...
Bill Esterson: ...I value the country’s pubs, whether they are in Leeds North West or my constituency. Members of Parliament have a duty to look after them as much as possible, particularly the ones that are run by pub tenants, because this is about a fairer deal at our locals. At a time when pubs are closing at a rate that has not been seen in more than 100 years, there is an urgency about doing what we...
Karen Bradley: It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Hood. On that point, can the Minister give some comfort to my constituent, Mr Geoff Turner, who runs the Den Engel Belgian beer bar in Leek? He has contacted me to say that higher-strength and premium beer is drunk very responsibly in his bar, and he would like reassurance that the Government are not attacking that market.
Andrew Smith: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer (1) what research he has undertaken or commissioned on the effect of the level of duty and VAT on beer on the number of pubs and of people employed by them; (2) what evidence he has considered of the relationship between the level of duty on beer and total receipts of beer duty; (3) what steps he plans to take to improve commercial prospects and...
Andrew Griffiths: I understand the important point that the hon. Gentleman is making, and I have two related questions. First, if the pub company has provided prospective tenants with all the information—a business plan, a financial adviser, an accountant, and a valuer, so that they know how much they will pay for their beer, rent, wine and spirits—and those people choose to sign the contracts, what more...
Barry Gardiner: I have been asked to reply. The Department has not made any estimates on the volume of alcohol in alcoholic drinks sold in licensed premises. However, information on the proportion of total beer by type is available in the British Beer and Pub Association Statistical Handbook 2006 (Table A14a) and is given in the following table. We do not have similar information for wine or spirit drinks....
