Contact your MP

We would strongly recommend you contact your MP in advance of the mass lobby to pre-arrange a meeting to avoid disappointment on the day.

To find out the name of your MP and contacts details please enter your postcode or town into the box below (n.b once the website shows who your MP is you need to click on the name to find the email address).


FIND YOUR MP:

Here is a guideline as to what to mention in your email or letter to your MP:

1. Mention that you’re are a constituent (include your home address on the letter to prove this – MPs only respond to their constituents)

2. Arrange to meet your MP (See table below for suggested times – please try to stick to these times to help manage the flow into Parliament).

3. Mention that you are a member of CAMRA and if possible name the branch.

4. Explain a little about CAMRA – volunteer-led, not for profit, consumer group with 140,000 members nationwide, campaigns to promote and protect real ale and community pubs.

5. Date of mass lobby (Wednesday 12th December).

6. Subject of mass lobby – to scrap the beer duty escalator where beer tax is automatically indreased by 2% above inflation every year.

7. Other facts you could include – a third of every pint goes straight to the Government in duty and VAT; Brits pay the second highest rate of beer tax in EU; beer tax has been hiked by 42% since 2008; 4,500 UK pubs have closed since 2008.

8. Here are some facts about your constituency you could include.

9. Mention the e-petition to Stop the Beer Duty Escalator – the 12th E-petition to gain the support of over 100,000 people.

10. Make the letter a little personal by mentioning why you are supporting this campaign and why this issue is important in your MP’s constituency.

11. Include all your contact details.

Arrival at Emmanuel Centre Meet with your MP Regions
11.00-12.00pm 12.30-13.30pm East Anglia, Central Southern, Wessex and Channel Isles, East Midlands, West Midlands, Merseyside & Cheshire, Greater Manchester
12.00-13.00pm  13.30-14.30pm  South West, Wales, Northern Ireland, Scotland, North East, West Pennines, Yorkshire
13.00-14.00pm 14.30-15.30pm Greater London, Kent, Surrey and Sussex