Sentences with phrase «planned fuel duty rise»

George Osborne's decision to halt August's planned fuel duty rise and freeze it for the rest of this year is a panic climbdown which will be greeted with contempt by everyone - and, furthermore, is extremely badly timed, since Ed Balls called for it today.

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.

George Osborne's decision to halt August's planned fuel duty rise and freeze it for the rest of this year is an adroit retreat which will be greeted with relief by motorists - and, furthermore, has been played by the book, since he's just announced it in the Commons.

A planned fuel duty rise has been scrapped, and there will be help for people struggling to find mortgage deposits.

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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.

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

Limiting benefit rises to 1 %, scrapping the planned fuel duty increase, devolving power over teacher pay to schools and cutting corporation tax are steps in the right direction.

«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.

The FSB want the planned 3p fuel duty rise in January scrapped.

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.

The chancellor has bowed to pressure from consumer groups and his own parliamentary colleagues by cancelling the planned rise in fuel duty.

A similar Sir Humphrey argument might be used about Labour's 3p fuel duty rise, which is planned for January 2013.

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.

In 2010 plans would have seen fuel duty rise above inflation every year — and cost motorists 18 pence extra a litre.

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.