SEPTEMBER 2013 FUEL DUTY INCREASE

Early day motion 1097, tabled 25 February 2013 by Robert Halfon (Conservative). Signed by 80 members.

That this House notes the action that the Government has taken to cut the cost of petrol and diesel, with a cut in fuel duty in 2011, two freezes in 2012 and the scrapping of the planned rise in January 2013; further notes, however, that rocketing fuel bills are causing misery for millions, and that this matters because fuel duty is a tax on everything, hitting food prices, bus prices and everyone who commutes to work; further notes that fuel duty hits the poorest the hardest, and that many workers in Harlow constituency and elsewhere are spending a tenth of their income just filling up the family car; and therefore calls on the Government to do everything in its power to stop the planned September rise in fuel duty and to help keep prices down.

Signatures by party: Labour 40, Conservative 19, Liberal Democrat 9, DUP 3, Social Democratic and Labour Party 3, Plaid Cymru 2, Scottish National Party 2, Alliance 1, Independent 1.