Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the price of fuel at motoring service areas; and what steps they will take to ensure motorists are aware of differences in prices.

The retail fuels market is subject to UK competition law under the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), formerly the Office of Fair Trading (OFT).

The Department for Transport has written twice to the CMA setting out our concerns to ensure that motorists benefit from the lower retail fuel prices and better services that can result from competition. We are now working with them to examine whether the use of new technology to increase the transparency of fuel prices can deliver more competitive fuel prices for consumers at motorway forecourts, without compromising safety.