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Pubco-Price Escalator And A Fair Deal For Local Pubs

EDM number 1170 in 2013-14, proposed by Greg Mulholland on 11/03/2014.
Categorised under the topics of Companies, Leisure, Service industries and Taxation.

That this House welcomes the 2013 beer duty cut and calls for a freeze in 2014; believes that this has benefited brewers but not pubco tenants who face above inflation pubco price increases; notes that Rob Willock, editor of the Publican's Morning Advertiser called this the pubco price escalator and agrees with his comments on 23 October 2013 that "there is one area in which pubco lessees still regularly appear to suffer in the relationship with their landlord that remains unregulated and potentially unfair - that of beer pricing" and that "pubcos fought passionately against the beer-duty-escalator - and won their concession. It's not fair for them to impose the same sort of mechanism on their lessees"; further notes that over six years from 2003 the price of an 11 gallons keg of Foster's increased to Enterprise Inns tenants 4.5 times the increase to freehouses; further notes the latest pubco price hike in February 2014, not followed by wholesalers; deplores Punch Taverns'

This motion has been signed by a total of 20 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Greg Mulholland11/03/2014Leeds North WestLiberal DemocratProposed
Jim Dobbin12/03/2014Heywood and MiddletonLabourSeconded
Ronnie Campbell12/03/2014Blyth ValleyLabourSeconded
Jeremy Corbyn12/03/2014Islington NorthLabourSeconded
Martin Caton12/03/2014GowerLabourSeconded
Graham Stringer13/03/2014Blackley and BroughtonLabourSeconded
Andrew George13/03/2014St IvesLiberal DemocratSigned
Caroline Lucas13/03/2014Brighton, PavilionGreenSigned
Peter Bottomley13/03/2014Worthing WestConservativeSigned
Adrian Sanders13/03/2014TorbayLiberal DemocratSigned
Alan Meale13/03/2014MansfieldLabourSigned
Albert Owen13/03/2014Ynys MLabourSigned
Bob Blackman13/03/2014Harrow EastConservativeSigned
John Leech13/03/2014Manchester, WithingtonLiberal DemocratSigned
Stephen Hepburn17/03/2014JarrowLabourSigned
Elfyn Llwyd17/03/2014Dwyfor MeirionnyddPlaid CymruSigned
Martin Horwood18/03/2014CheltenhamLiberal DemocratSigned
Jim Cunningham18/03/2014Coventry SouthLabourSigned
Mike Hancock19/03/2014Portsmouth SouthLiberal DemocratSigned
David Crausby19/03/2014Bolton North EastLabourSigned

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