Excise Duties: Kent

(asked on 11th December 2014) - View Source

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.


Answered by
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Priti Patel
This question was answered on 16th December 2014

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.

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