Road Fuel Prices

John Redwood Excerpts
Monday 3rd July 2023

(10 months, 2 weeks ago)

Commons Chamber
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John Redwood Portrait John Redwood (Wokingham) (Con)
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Given corporation tax, carbon taxes, the windfall tax, fuel duties and VAT, is not the bulk of the price at the pump, and of other fuels, now tax-based? Will my right hon. Friend remind us of how much is tax and urge the Chancellor to reduce some of those taxes to cut the cost of living?

Graham Stuart Portrait Graham Stuart
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I thank my right hon. Friend for championing the consumer, as he always does. As he will be well aware, tax is a matter for the Chancellor, but the whole House will have heard his passionate call to make sure that taxes are held down to the lowest amount they possibly can be. That is one more reason why we cannot have the Labour party taking control of the country.