Written Question·Treasury·UIN 120833

Red Diesel: Houseboats

Tabled: 16 March 2026
Answered: 26 March 2026
Named Day

Question

Ruth Cadbury

LabourBrentford and Isleworth

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps her Department is taking to provide financial support to house boat dwellers impacted by the cost of red diesel fuel.

Answer

Dan Tomlinson
Certain uses, such as non-propulsion use by private pleasure craft, retained the entitlement access to use red diesel after it was withdrawn from most sectors in 2022. In contrast to full duty diesel, taxed at 52.95 pence per litre (ppl), red diesel curre...

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