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Steve McCabe Excerpts

Tuesday 17th May 2022 Commons Chamber

[Rishi Sunak]

My hon. Friend is absolutely right, and I thank him for his support in championing policies that support his hard-working constituents. This Government will always be on the side of people on lower and middle incomes who are working hard to provide a better life for their families, and we will keep delivering for them.

[Steve McCabe (Birmingham, Selly Oak) (Lab)]

T7. The Chancellor called the reduction in fuel duty in the spring statement “a tax cut…for hard-working families.”—[Official Report, 23 March 2022; Vol. 711, c. 338.]Why are those families paying more for a litre of petrol today than they were then?

[Rishi Sunak]

Sadly, nothing we can do from this Dispatch Box can change global oil prices, but we can reduce the taxes that we are responsible for. That tax cut, together with the freeze, is worth, this year, about £100 for a typical family driver, £200 or more for a van driver, and almost £1,500 for an HGV driver.