Sentences with phrase «government fuel duty»

«I am very pleased that under this Government fuel duty has not been increased at all in the last 5 years, recognising the impact fuel costs can have on the cost of living and business costs - particularly in rural areas where we are reliant on our vehicles.

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Trucking Efficiency informed the government's new, more - stringent fuel economy and emissions standards for heavy - duty trucks — estimated to save 1 billion metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions and $ 170 billion in fuel costs.

«History shows that increasing tobacco duty above inflation fuels illicit trade and costs government money.

To reverse the trend the LGA is calling for the Government to invest 2p per litre of existing fuel duty in road maintenance.

He deflected questions from the floor on the politically sticky subjects of wind power and fuel duty mainly with swipes at the «previous government», avoiding even a joshing jibe at his coalition partners.

With reports online that Tory MPs were still being told to brand Labour's demand for a fuel duty freeze «the worst kind of hypocrisy» at 12:30 BST yesterday, Ms Smith's inability to stick to a government line seems considerably more understandable.

At present it is Downing Street which has the bragging rights when it comes to petitions; it's no coincidence today's protest by hauliers, angry at the government's 2p fuel duty hike, will be delivering their petition to the prime minister rather than parliament.

The LGA wants the Government to give councils two pence per litre of existing fuel duty to spend on local roads maintenance.

Central government revenues are mainly from income tax, national insurance contributions, value added tax, corporation tax and fuel duty.

In the future, I will always urge the Government to reduce fuel duty if they can.

«Given the opportunity to support a call for the UK Government to postpone the planned rise in fuel duty — a rise inherited from the last Labour Government — Scottish Labour astonished the parliament by abstaining.

Ed Balls, shadow chancellor, criticised the government's plans to fund the cut in fuel duty by taxing oil companies:

The main objection to motorway polls or congestion charging is that 86 per cent of the AA motorists would not trust the government to keep its word if they had offered reductions in fuel duty or road tax upon the introduction of road pricing.

However, critics have asked how the persistent freezes in fuel duty fit with the government's deficit reduction priority — a question most famously posed by Jeremy Paxman to Treasury minister Chloe Smith on Newsnight after the duty U-turn in August.

Mr Osborne set out a number of policies for a future Tory government, including a freeze on fuel duty and a requirement for the long - term unemployed to work for their benefits.

It insists that fuel would be 10p a litre more expensive now under plans for a duty «escalator» drawn up by the previous government, which scheduled annual inflation - plus - 1 % rises until 2014.

«There is an inconvenient truth, which is that the fuel duty rises that the right hon. Gentleman refers to are the ones put in place by the Labour Government, which he and any Labour Member who was in the previous Parliament voted for.

Every budget, Governments used to raise fuel duty at midnight and motorists would flock to petrol stations the night before.

Now, I accept that this Government has stepped up to the plate when it comes to cutting fuel duty.

Yesterday Robert Halfon's motion urging the Government to consider scrapping any further increases in fuel duty passed without a division.

Of course the Government can do more to cut fuel duty, and I hope it is the first candidate for tax cuts as soon as the economic conditions allow.

Brandon Lewis: Will she confirm that, despite what has been said, my hon. Friend the Member for Dover (Charlie Elphicke) is right: there were 12 fuel duty rises under the Labour Government, and six more were set to come into force before they left office and would have done in the next few years?

«It's difficult to see how Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling could make the government's position on road tax and fuel duty more complicated, but today they succeeded.»

Fuel duty's disproportionate impact on rural voters: «The Government understand the challenges faced by people in rural areas in relation to fuel costs, which those of us in city and urban areas perhaps do not fFuel duty's disproportionate impact on rural voters: «The Government understand the challenges faced by people in rural areas in relation to fuel costs, which those of us in city and urban areas perhaps do not ffuel costs, which those of us in city and urban areas perhaps do not face.

George Osborne had already cancelled rises due under the fuel duty escalator — a commitment to successive duty increases — put in place by the previous government.

Spelman attacked Labour's legacy in rural areas, citing the examples of «five rural post offices a week closed under the previous Government» and a 12times hike in fuel duty «hitting rural communities twice as hard as urban ones».

Downing Street indicated earlier on Wednesday that government ministers were not told in advance of the chancellor's # 550m decision to suspend the 3p hike in fuel duty — prompting Miliband to ask Cameron why he had forgotten to tell them.

Under questioning from Miliband in the Commons, Cameron said that the decision to freeze fuel duty was not a government U-turn since it was one of six increases in fuel duty left by Labour.

Mike Hawes, head of the car industry body, the SMMT, said it was likely that the government would look to road pricing in some form to take over from fuel duty.

Kevin Nicholson, head of tax at PwC, said the government would need to move quickly to reverse a decline in fuel duty that is already under way.

But pointing to the fact that the announcement came just a day after the transport secretary, Justine Greening, publicly defended the fuel duty rise as an important part of the government's deficit reduction strategy, Miliband said: «So it was all part of a seamless political strategy?»

Shadow chancellor urges government to postpone August's planned 3p increase in fuel duty until next year

When we were in government, we postponed fuel duty increases when the economy was weakened, when families were struggling, and that's what the government should do now.»

Meanwhile, EDM 1241 calls on the Government to consider implementing the one - time Conservative policy of a fuel duty stabiliser:

But the Tory MP Robert Halfon, who has led the campaign against increasing fuel duty, said he would not vote against the government until he saw whether the chancellor, George Osborne, responded to the mounting concerns in his autumn statement, due on 5 December.

The CBI also wants the government to reconsider planned increases in fuel duty, changes to air passenger duty and to look at deregulating small mergers to help struggling firms survive by joining forces.

The Government has done its work; cutting or freezing fuel duty for two years.

However, today we rely on government programs like fuel - efficiency standards for light - duty vehicles and renewable portfolio mandates for utilities to help reduce CO2 emissions.

DEARBORN, MI — Ford and Toyota sign an agreement to jointly develop rear - wheel - drive hybrid electric powertrains, noting increasing the fuel efficiency of light - duty pickups and SUVs is imperative to remaining viable in a U.S. market facing increasingly stringent government regulations.

A new National Research Council report finds that by the year 2050, the U.S. may be able to reduce petroleum consumption and greenhouse gas emissions by 80 percent for light - duty vehicles — cars and small trucks — via a combination of more efficient vehicles; the use of alternative fuels like biofuels, electricity, and hydrogen; and strong government policies to overcome high costs and influence consumer choices.

They opposed the Government's fuel - duty escalator and said that the Climate Change Levy - a business tax on energy use that would be offset by cuts in corporate National Insurance contributions - «played Russian roulette with employment».

The government has not raised fuel duty in line with inflation and has cancelled a string of planned increases.

In 2009, a historic agreement between the Federal Government, state regulators, and the auto industry established a national program to implement these first meaningful fuel efficiency improvements in over 30 years and the first - ever global warming pollution standards for light - duty vehicles.