Biofuels: Excise Duties

(asked on 28th November 2017) - View Source

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the merits of taxing bioethanol on the basis of energy content rather than volume; and if he will make a statement.


Answered by
Andrew Jones Portrait
Andrew Jones
This question was answered on 5th December 2017

Support for bioethanol is informed by the provisions of the Renewable Energy and Energy Tax Directives. Together these have prompted support through a market based mechanism rather than the tax system. For further information about the government’s approach I refer the hon. Member to the answer given by my hon. Friend the member for Hereford and South Herefordshire (Jesse Norman) on 13 September 2017, UIN 8877.

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