Dear Chancellor,

Urgent – unfair minimum 40 litre container restriction on draught duty relief

We are writing on behalf of the Campaign for Pubs and small independent brewers and cider makers and many pubs and publicans, to urge you to review and to drop the unfair 40 litre minimum container size restriction on draught duty relief.

This unnecessary limit discriminates against smaller UK brewers and cider makers and also therefore discriminates against pubs and bars that rely on these container sizes and champion these smaller UK producers. As you will already have noticed, the UK’s many excellent craft brewers are up in arms about this, as are the many publicans who rely on their products and champion them…