Sentences with phrase «freeze on fuel duty»

The budget did include a straight up tax break for investment in North Sea oil, as well as a freeze on fuel duty increases.

Dozens of Conservative MPs have said they will oppose any attempt to end the five - year freeze on fuel duty in the Budget.

The cash saved will be used to pay for a freeze on fuel duty to placate exasperated motorists; a cap on rail fare rises; and to help fund scores of infrastructure projects, from the Kettering bypass to a new bridge across the Thames.

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.

Chancellor's freeze on fuel duty hailed a «victory for the hard - working classes of modern Britain»

She proposed generous measures including a freeze on fuel duty — a trademark of Osborne's — as well as cuts to air passenger taxes, and further childcare subsidies.

Not exact matches

Measures such as the higher personal allowance, the freeze in fuel duty, and abolition of the alcohol duty escalator will all ease the burden on hard - pressed families.

«The cut in beer tax, the freeze in fuel duty and the higher personal allowance will all ease the pressure on family budgets.

He would freeze fuel duty, a big deal for our readers, then slap a tax on takeaway grub.

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.

They also had a Windfall Tax on Utilities and auctioned 3 - G licences, raided Pension Funds and played with Fuel Duty... taxes rose quite considerably... it was spending totals they froze causing real problems in the NHs etc which then exploded after 2001 rather like binge - dieting

Hammond admitted he was averting negative headlines by not bringing in wider moves on diesel and continuing to freeze fuel duty.

The coalition has frozen the fuel duty escalator on petrol and diesel that was brought in by the previous administration as a green tax during the 1990s.

The group's chief executive, Stephen Joseph, said: «Freezing fuel duty does nothing to help the millions who rely on public transport.

Increasing the personal allowance is popular (83 % say its a good idea), as is cracking down on international tax avoidance (81 %), freezing fuel duty (74 %) and the sugar tax (62 %).

On a day when he revealed the economy would take a # 60 billion hit over the coming five years thanks Brexit, Mr Hammond did have some positive news - namely that fuel duty would be frozen and the National Living Wage increased.

The political damage from George Osborne's U-turn on plans to increase fuel duty deepened on Tuesday night when he was accused of leaving one of his junior ministers to carry the can during an interview in which she struggled to explain how the freeze would be funded.