| Heading: |
Tobacco: Excise Duties |
| Question ID: |
1804794 |
| UIN: |
HL7692 |
| House: |
Lords |
| Date tabled: |
2025-05-20 |
| Asking Member ID: |
2484 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Lord Rennard
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| Asking Member handle: |
LordRennard
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@LordRennard
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the extent to which tobacco industry pricing strategies undermine the objectives of the minimum excise tax and tobacco excise tax to reduce smoking prevalence. |
| Is named day: |
false |
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| Date answered: |
2025-06-03 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4559 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Lord Livermore
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| Answering Member handle: |
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
Lord Livermore
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| Answer text: |
Like most businesses across the economy, tobacco producers and retailers are free to set prices for their products. Evidence suggests that close to 100% of tax increases, and in many cases more, is passed through to consumers through prices. How this is d... |
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| Answering body ID: |
14 |
| Answering body name: |
Treasury |
| Tweeted: |
true |