Red Diesel: Houseboats
Commons · Question 120833 · Tabled 16 Mar 2026 · Treasury · Official record
Answered 26 Mar 2026
Question
Asked by Ruth Cadbury
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps her Department is taking to provide financial support to house boat dwellers impacted by the cost of red diesel fuel.
Answer
Answered by Dan Tomlinson, 26 Mar 2026
Certain uses, such as non-propulsion use by private pleasure craft, retained the entitlement access to use red diesel after it was withdrawn from most sectors in 2022. In contrast to full duty diesel, taxed at 52.95 pence per litre (ppl), red diesel curre...