Evening Standard
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Draught duty on alcoholic drinks will fall by 1.7%, meaning "a penny off a pint in the pub", the Chancellor has announced.
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00:00Next, I can confirm that alcohol duty rates on non-draft products will increase in line
00:07with RPI from February next year. But nearly two-thirds of alcoholic drinks sold in pubs
00:13are served on draft. So today, instead of uprating these products in line with inflation,
00:19I am cutting draft duty by 1.7%, which means a penny off the pints in the pub.

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