Hydrocarbon Oil Duties

Part of Orders of the Day — Finance Bill – in the House of Commons at 7:30 pm on 27 April 1999.

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Photo of Geoffrey Clifton-Brown Geoffrey Clifton-Brown Opposition Whip (Commons) 7:30, 27 April 1999

The hon. Gentleman obviously has not been listening to my speech. If he had, he would have heard me say that one should consider the rate of fuel duty in the light of the economic circumstances of the time. I cannot tell him what will be the economic circumstances after the Government have had a go at our economy. The economy may well be considerably worse off than it is now and, under those circumstances, we would probably be unable to increase the fuel duty as much as it would be prudent to do at the present time.