Sentences with phrase «in fuel duty»

But he also announced a delay to the increase in fuel duty, a reversal on the introduction of a per - plane duty, and few energy and emission - reduction incentives.

I believe a cut in fuel duty is an essential part of this plan.

Don't forget, though, that further hikes in fuel duty are still scheduled.

The only specific measure to run into strong opposition was the increase in fuel duty, opposed by 68 %.

The decision to scrap the 3p rise in fuel duty planned for January altogether, rather than just putting it off until April, wins the chancellor brownie points far in excess of its actual cost.

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.

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

The chancellor is expected to delay the 3p rise in fuel duty scheduled for January, following a campaign by consumer groups and parliamentary colleagues.

Mr Osborne risks defeat in the Commons if he presses ahead with a 2p rise in fuel duty in tomorrow's Budget, one of his closest allies has warned.

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.

This report details the massive discrepancies between the amounts spent on rail compared to the amounts spent on roads per passenger and the raw deal that motorists who are paying # 30.3 billion per year in Fuel Duty and Vehicle Excise Duty are afforded.

In 2011 he financed a cut in fuel duty with a heavy tax on what then appeared to be a buoyant industry.

George Osborne surprised MPs by announcing a cut in fuel duty which comes into force this evening.

In addition to the 1p cut in beer duty, the chancellor announced he was abandoning the scheduled September increase in fuel duty altogether.

This time over the imminent rise in fuel duty now delayed until Christmas at least.

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

The Treasury has published a new report into the decision to axe automatic rises in fuel duty claiming it will boost the economy in the long term.

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.

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.

Labour wants 3p - a-litre hike in fuel duty postponed for another three months in face of rising bills and stagnant wages

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

The Chancellor announced a # 2 billion - a-year windfall levy on North Sea oil to fund an immediate cut in fuel duty of 1p per litre.

He also postponed a 5p rise in fuel duty due next month and introduced a fuel price stabiliser to keep costs at the pumps down.

«Drivers in remote rural areas will be offered a cut in fuel duty under plans to be announced by the Treasury.

Take the difference in fuel duty between the US and the UK: 13 % versus over 60 % in the UK.

In the UK, the whole debate over the proposed raise in fuel duty (3p a litre), has been over the politics and «economics» of it (with a 19th paragraph quote form FOE in the BBC).

«Drivers shouldn't be dancing in the streets or at the pumps due to a promised freeze in fuel duty,» said Edmund King, AA president.

Ed Miliband has accused George Osborne of «hiding away» over the decision to axe a planned 3p hike in fuel duty — as it emerged that he was dining with Tory MPs in Downing Street last night as his junior minister Chloe Smith was struggling on live TV to explain the move.

The national insurance break for the first 10 employees in start - ups could be extended and the Chancellor will almost certainly delay a rise in fuel duty scheduled for April.

It would be fairer, he went on, to ensure that all drivers contribute towards road costs through a general per mile charge — offset initially by a commensurate reduction in fuel duty.

Last week, days in advance of the vote in Glasgow East, the Chancellor extended the nation's overdraft once more (by # 550 million this time) to postpone indefinitely the 2p rise in fuel duty that was due in October.

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Late last year, George Osborne postponed Labour's planned increase in fuel duty, but the planned increase is due to come into force in August this year.

On fuel duty plans, he continued... «It is good news for the motorist — be they a business or consumer — that the 3p rise in fuel duty has been cancelled and not postponed.

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.

«Countrysiders and their businesses are penalised for their rural location, paying more to run a car, which is an essential not a luxury for them; this freeze in fuel duty will help to alleviate this pressure.»

«It is great news that the planned rise in Fuel Duty has been cancelled.

However, when it was explained that a charging system would be accompanied by a range of benefits, such as the abolition of VED and a cut in fuel duty, opposition to the scheme fell away markedly.

The Harlow Tory has been a persistent campaigner on several issues, most notably against hospital car parking charges and increases in fuel duty.

I have always campaigned in Parliament - with the Sun, Times, Mail, Express, Telegraph, FairFuelUK, and others - for a cut in fuel duty.

«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.

There is also expected to be a 3p rise in fuel duty, a freeze on higher income tax credits, # 250 million support for energy - intensive companies and a restriction on train fare rises to six per cent - little bit of «squeezed middle» policymaking at the end there.

«Taxpayers will appreciate a cut in fuel duty that will be a welcome relief from crippling motoring taxes.

Inflation rises in October As inflation rose to 2.7 per cent in October, the FSB warned that with energy costs set to rise and potential increase in fuel duty, we are concerned about the pressure this will put on household and business finances.

The government's support for expanded nuclear energy plans and simultaneous hints at a deferral of the 2p increase in fuel duty have prompted criticism from the Conservatives.