Sentences with phrase «fuel duty rise due»

The statement was trailed in some circles as being one for «strivers» and, as well as the benefits squeeze, headlines this morning have focused on help for drivers as the 3p fuel duty rise due next month was scrapped.

With a fuel duty rise due this summer and the possibility of strikes by fuel tanker drivers, it will be interesting to measure the impact on the oil companies and whether BP and Shell can ensure that any blame attached is shared around equally, rather than disproportionately focused on them.

Not exact matches

Mr Darling also hinted the 2p rise in fuel duty, due to be implemented from this October, may be deferred.

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.

The chancellor has frozen fuel duty again, cancelling a rise planned for September — although Treasury documents published alongside the budget reveal that the rise was only due to be 1.89 p, not the 3p that was widely anticipated.