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Bar sales (2022)

Request

  1. Monthly sales figures for each of the bars on the Parliamentary estate operated by the House of Commons for each month from January 2015 onwards (including the most recent figures for April 2022). Please note that I would like the numbers provided for each individual bar (the Strangers’ Bar, the Pugin Room and the Members’ Smoking Room) rather than a collective total.
  2. The top 100 items sold in the Commons-operated bars from the start of 2022. Please note that I would like the collective figures for the Commons bars - not each individual bar.

 

Response

1. Monthly sales figures for each of the bars on the Parliamentary estate operated by the House of Commons for each month from January 2015 onwards (including the most recent figures for April 2022). Please note that I would like the numbers provided for each individual bar (the Strangers’ Bar, the Pugin Room and the Members’ Smoking Room) rather than a collective total.

We have interpreted this part of your request to be for the value of sales in each of the bars operated by the House of Commons.

This information is held by the House of Commons.
Monthly figures for the value of food and beverage sales in each of the Strangers’ Bar, the Pugin Room and the Members’ Smoking Room - covering the months from January 2015 to April 2022.

Please note the following in relation to the data:
• These sales figures exclude VAT.
• Beverage sales include soft drinks, water and hot drinks. They also include the sales of souvenir alcoholic drinks, if any were sold.
• If there are no sales for a period of time, it means that the venues were closed owing either to Covid-19 lockdown rules or to recess. If there are a small number of transactions or low values, it is likely to be system corrections and the venue was otherwise closed.

It may help you to know that, aside from periods where Covid-19 lockdown rules were in force, the parliamentary estate and its catering venues are open to around 15,000 passholders. This includes Members of Parliament, their staff, House staff, civil servants, contractors, Peers, members of the Press Gallery and others. Catering venues are also open to a large number of non-pass holding visitors to Parliament.

2. The top 100 items sold in the Commons-operated bars from the start of 2022. Please note that I would like the collective figures for the Commons bars - not each individual bar.

We have interpreted this part of your request to be about the top 100 items sold in the bars operated by the House of Commons, based on the number of sales of each product.

This information is held by the House of Commons.
We hold information about the number of sales of each product across the Strangers’ Bar, the Pugin Room and the Members’ Smoking Room.
The number of sales for the 100 most popular products, for the period from 1 January to 30 April 2022.