Written Question·Treasury·UIN 11578

Fuels: Excise Duties

Tabled: 29 October 2024
Answered: 6 November 2024

Question

Jim Shannon

Democratic Unionist Party — Strangford

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an estimate of the proportion of the reduction in fuel duty made in 2022 that was passed on to consumers by petrol stations.

Answer

James Murray
Fuel duty rates were first reduced by 5p in March 2022 by the government at the time. The Competition and Markets Authority’s Road Fuel Review into fuel prices, published on 8 July 2022, found that the 5p cut had largely been passed on to consumers. At Au...
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