Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they will take to ensure that motorists achieve value for money from fuel retailers, given varying pump prices for fuel within localised areas.

Following the conclusion of their initial review of the road fuel market, the Competition and Markets Authority has launched a Market Study into the supply of road fuel in the UK and is investigating whether the growing gap between the oil price and wholesale price of fuel, including disparities in price at retailers and across urban and rural areas, is justified.

The Department looks forward to receiving its final report and the Government will carefully consider, alongside relevant industry partners, any recommendations made in the study.