Robert Halfon 
(Harlow, Conservative) : Following my question to the Prime Minister yesterday, may we have an urgent debate on petrol prices and how they are hitting public services? Last year, the police spent £78 million on motoring fuel and it could hit £90 million this year—money that could have been spent on policing. The Royal College of Nursing says that 60,000 nurses now subsidise NHS petrol bills out of their own pockets. Does my right hon. Friend agree that high petrol prices are becoming a real threat to front-line services?
George Young 
(Leader of the House of Commons, House of Commons; North West Hampshire, Conservative)
My hon. Friend is right. Our petrol prices have begun to come down over recent weeks, and we all hope that that initiative can be sustained. The coalition Government have taken action to help. As he knows, average pump prices are approximately 6p a litre lower than they would have been if we had continued with the previous Government's escalator.
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[ posted by Ron Teasle, July 03, 2011 14:43 ]
High oil prices will continue and the impact on our society as a whole will be astronomical.
See: youtube.com/watch?v=ejHjxJ4MhNM
[ posted by angharad roberts, July 03, 2011 16:08 ]
im a community nurse and the money we get for mileage from the NHS doesn't cover it at all so yes we are paying out of our pocket for fuel to do our jobs.
[ posted by Ashley Leaney, July 03, 2011 17:14 ]
Break up the corrupt CARTEL that comprises the corrupt OPEC states. They control oil prices by reducing production and hold the world to ransom.
[ posted by Jim King, July 03, 2011 19:54 ]
Call me a little cynical if you like but lets just look at these comments and the PM's comments.
The fuel duty escalator, Now this was a John Major idea, i dont recall him being part of the last government really.
A 1p cut in duty is hardly what i would call "the government taking the necessary action" perhaps a scrapping of fuel duty would be.
I have told you enough times how to do it. Hold a referendum, Leave the EU, keep our own money, and use it to abolish fuel duty giving the UK the chance to rebuild the ecomomy that the last government did ruin.
like a certain meerkat says, SIMPLES!