Fuel Duty
Debate between Dan Rogerson and Sajid Javid(12 years ago)
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Sajid Javid
As always, my hon. Friend is absolutely right. I will come to that later.
In the Budgets of 2009 and 2010, the shadow Chancellor and his colleagues endorsed seven rises in fuel duty between 2010 and 2014.
Dan Rogerson (North Cornwall) (LD)
The Minister finds himself in a strange set of circumstances whereby he is having to take the Opposition’s advice to abandon the policy that they pursued in government. What does he think it will be next—returning the top rate of income tax to the 40% that it was for most of their time in office, or perhaps reintroducing the 10p rate?
Sajid Javid
My hon. Friend is absolutely right to point out that the Opposition are all over the place.
If we had found a way to halt all the rises that Labour had planned, we would have done so, but if we had gone ahead with its plans, fuel duty would have continued to rise. Fuel would be 10p per litre more expensive by now, costing the average Ford Focus driver £159 extra by April 2013. Let us put to bed once and for all the idea that Labour is the party fighting to support people on the cost of living.