Sentences with phrase «fuel duty rises under»

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?

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Aviation tax rises were dropped despite the fact that aviation is historically under - taxed compared to road fuels and, whilst the road fuel duty escalator was scrapped, there was no help for bus and train users suffering much greater cost increases.

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.

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.

George Osborne is planning to freeze the planned fuel duty rise in his autumn statement, after coming under pressure from his backbenchers and receiving support from key Liberal Democrat colleagues.