Road Fuel Prices

Holly Mumby-Croft Excerpts
Monday 3rd July 2023

(10 months, 2 weeks ago)

Commons Chamber
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Graham Stuart Portrait Graham Stuart
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I thank the right hon. Lady for her question and will ensure that His Majesty’s Treasury is aware of it.

Holly Mumby-Croft Portrait Holly Mumby-Croft (Scunthorpe) (Con)
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The good people of Scunthorpe spotted this issue some time ago, so I thank my right hon. Friend for his work on it and the measures he is recommending. Has the similar open-data scheme that has been trialled in Germany resulted in a boost in competitiveness? If so, when does my right hon. Friend think we will start to see the results at the pumps here?

Graham Stuart Portrait Graham Stuart
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I hope from as soon as next month, under a voluntary scheme. My hon. Friend gives me the perfect opportunity to repeat how determined I am to see the companies provide the data so that we have something far less clunky, as it has been called, and far more comprehensive than what we have today, and so that that can lead to the benefits that have been found elsewhere.