Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Priti Patel and Lord Hanson of Flint

Tuesday 2nd September 2014 Commons Chamber

[Priti Patel]

I thank my right hon. Friend for his warm and generous remarks. He knows that the Government are committed to supporting motorists. We are the Government who abolished the previous Government’s fuel duty escalator, cut fuel duty by 1 pence per litre and scrapped the four increases that had been planned over the Parliament. By the end of this Parliament, fuel duty will have been frozen for nearly four and a half years—the longest duty freeze in over 20 years—which I know that my right hon. Friend and, of course, the good people of Chelmsford will warmly welcome.

[Mr David Hanson (Delyn) (Lab)]

Could the Minister tell the House how much per litre VAT has added to the price of petrol?

[Priti Patel]

Simple answer: a lot less than it would have been under Labour.