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Fuels: Excise Duties

Commons · Question 72957 · Tabled 29 Aug 2025 · Treasury · Official record

Answered 5 Sep 2025

Question

Asked by Scott Arthur

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the estimated cost of maintaining the freeze on fuel duty is in (a) 2024-2025 and (b) the five-year Parliamentary term.

Answer

Answered by Dan Tomlinson, 5 Sep 2025

At Autumn Budget 2024, fuel duty was frozen at the current rate of 52.95 pence per litre for 2025/26, at a projected cost of £3,015m in 2025/26. The OBR estimated in its March 2025 Economic and Fiscal Outlook that if the duty rate were to remain unchanged...