Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many households in (a) Kent, (b) Medway and (c) Gillingham and Rainham constituency have been affected by the freezing of fuel duty.
Since 2011, the Government has taken action on fuel duty to support motorists, by abolishing the previous government’s fuel duty escalator, cutting fuel duty by 1 penny per litre in March 2011, and scrapping four planned increases over the parliament. The number of privately owned cars registered in the named constituencies to benefit from these actions are as follows:
Kent: 711,226
Medway: 120,806
Gillingham and Rainham constituency: 44,429
The Government does not hold information relating to the addresses of registered keepers, and therefore cannot provide data broken down by household.