Transport: Fuel Prices

Lord Davies of Oldham Excerpts

Thursday 24th November 2011 Lords Chamber

[Baroness Wilcox]

I would imagine that everybody is tightening their belts. No doubt it, too, has had to reduce, as have all government departments following the terrible debts that we incurred when we came into government.

[Lord Davies of Oldham]

My Lords, given that the 10p excess which is often charged by motorway service stations is a very high fraction of the actual cost of the fuel, and that the companies are therefore getting a much greater return than elsewhere, should the Government not look at this matter as an issue of urgency?

[Baroness Wilcox]

As I think the noble Lord knows, the Government cannot intervene where the Office of Fair Trading should be acting.