Diesel Prices
EDM number 1156 in 2012-13, proposed by Robert Halfon on 06/03/2013.
Categorised under the topics of Fuel poverty, Incomes and poverty and Oil, petrol and natural gas.
That this House notes the oral evidence given by Mr Damian McBride to the Public Administration Select Committee on 27 February 2013, where he stated that he had explored changing the specification of ultra low sulphur diesel but was blocked by HM Customs and Excise on the grounds that 'there are some technical and administrative things that are nothing to do with Ministers'; further notes Mr McBride's evidence that manufacturers had to continue blending expensive kerosene (heating fuel) with their diesel compound and that the impact of this was to drive up the price of diesel in the winter months by 3 or 4 pence per litre, due to supply shortages; concludes that a relaxed diesel specification could help to reduce the price significantly at the pumps; and therefore calls on the Government to consider doing this, especially as the poorest families are trapped in petrol poverty, with some spending 27 per cent of their income on car costs.
This motion has been signed by a total of 17 MPs.
MP | Date | Constituency | Party | Type |
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Robert Halfon | 06/03/2013 | Harlow | Conservative | Proposed |
Mark Durkan | 06/03/2013 | Foyle | Social Democratic and Labour Party | Seconded |
Peter Bottomley | 06/03/2013 | Worthing West | Conservative | Seconded |
Jim Shannon | 07/03/2013 | Strangford | DUP | Seconded |
Jim Dobbin | 07/03/2013 | Heywood and Middleton | Labour | Seconded |
Graham Stringer | 07/03/2013 | Blackley and Broughton | Labour | Seconded |
Alan Meale | 07/03/2013 | Mansfield | Labour | Signed |
Martin Caton | 07/03/2013 | Gower | Labour | Signed |
Dennis Skinner | 11/03/2013 | Bolsover | Labour | Signed |
Mike Hancock | 11/03/2013 | Portsmouth South | Liberal Democrat | Signed |
David Simpson | 12/03/2013 | Upper Bann | DUP | Signed |
William McCrea | 12/03/2013 | South Antrim | DUP | Signed |
Margaret Ritchie | 13/03/2013 | South Down | Social Democratic and Labour Party | Signed |
Lady Hermon | 13/03/2013 | North Down | Independent | Signed |
Nigel Dodds | 14/03/2013 | Belfast North | DUP | Signed |
Gregory Campbell | 19/03/2013 | East Londonderry | DUP | Signed |
Lindsay Roy | 21/03/2013 | Glenrothes | Labour | Signed |
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