Beer Duty Escalator

My hon. Friend is absolutely right. Young people can enter the beer and pub industry at the botto...

I congratulate my hon. Friend on securing this debate, which is important to many of our constitu...

I cannot argue with my hon. Friend. Microbreweries are an extremely important part of the make-up...

Will my hon. Friend refer also to the number of public houses that have closed over the past five...

I thank my hon. Friend for that extremely pertinent comment. I will come to that.

In my con...

I join others in congratulating my hon. Friend on securing this debate. He mentioned that the esc...

Absolutely. It is not a Conservative principle to impose taxes such as the escalator year on year...

I congratulate the hon. Gentleman on securing this debate. Does he agree that one purpose of Gove...

I thank the hon. Lady for her comments. It is nice and extremely refreshing to be able to agree w...

I join the chorus of MPs who are congratulating my hon. Friend on securing this important debate....

I think that my hon. Friend has probably read my speech; he has made a pertinent point which I co...

It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Caton. I hope that you, the Minister and th...

I congratulate the hon. Lady on taking part in the all-party beer group’s campaign to get MPs to ...

I am grateful for that intervention. Many hon. Members belong to that all-party group and regular...

I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Nuneaton (Mr Jones) on securing this debate. He is a...

The hon. Gentleman is making an important and strong case. Does he share my concern about figures...

The hon. Gentleman is absolutely right, and that is what I was alluding to when I mentioned the m...

To help our hon. Friend the Minister, we know that money is short and that taking this action wil...

The first point is that this tax does not make economic sense, because it is not bringing in what...

It is a pleasure to speak in the debate. I join in the congratulations to my hon. Friend the Memb...

Thank you for allowing me to speak in the debate, Mr Caton. I feel very much like a new boy: I ha...

I agree with my hon. Friend that in a rural community very small micro-breweries and pubs are ver...

Order. That is very long for an intervention.

Thank you, Mr Caton. I was enjoying that intervention, although I must admit that I had some init...

I am grateful to be bringing up the rear in the debate today. I am mindful that time is short; it...

I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for giving way. I wish him a gool Peran lowen—a happy St Pira...

Gool Peran lowen to my hon. Friend. He has been fantastic in supporting the British brewing indus...

Before the hon. Gentleman goes on to list the many breweries in his constituency, will he say wha...

Since the beer duty escalator was introduced by her Government, we have seen beer duty increase b...

My hon. Friend is well known for his support of the industry. If we are going to start playing po...

They are in the Champagne bar.

They may be.

This important debate has united the House. Some 151 MPs from all parties have signed my early-da...

It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship this morning, Mr Caton. I thank the hon. Member...

We all know that the last Labour Government left a crippling deficit for this coalition Governmen...

I hear what the hon. Gentleman says about the deficit, but the last Labour Government had a very ...

The hon. Lady criticises the Government for what she says was the introduction of the biggest eve...

The hon. Gentleman knows as well as I do the history of the increase, and I simply say that it wa...

The hon. Lady has gone back to the topic of VAT. Does she regret that when the previous Governmen...

We are at the stage in the parliamentary cycle when the coalition Government must absolutely take...

May I say what a pleasure it is to see you in the Chair, Mr Caton?

I thank my hon. Friend t...

I thank the Minister for giving way and for his support for the industry. He will know that beer ...

My hon. Friend is always full of innovative ideas, but he makes a serious point about tax avoidan...