Excise Duty

Sir Peter Emery
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what was the level of excise duty expressed in £ sterling per litre on (a) whisky, (b) gin, (c) wine and (d) fortified wine in (i) the United Kingdom and (ii) each member state of the European Union in (1) 1992, (2) 1995 and (3) 1998. [34037]

Dawn Primarolo
[holding answer 16 March 1998]: The levels of excise duty are set out in the tables.-------------
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|Country    |Ecu|£|Ecu|£|Ecu|£|
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|Italy      |
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|Luxembourg |
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|Netherlands|
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|Portugal   |
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|Sweden     |
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