Our months of lobbying in the lead-up to the Winter 2025 Budget seems to have paid off.
Fuel Duty is Frozen to September 2026
A big thanks to MP for Broxbourne, Lewis Cocking, for leading our 15th year of this widely respected campaign inside Parliament too. He has made a real difference.
Drivers, especially those who fill up with diesel, remain the highest taxed in the world. Still, it would be churlish not to thank the Chancellor for listening in her second Budget to her own MPs, who have received thousands of calls from their FairFuelUK supporting constituents to keep this regressive tax frozen.
Fifteen years ago, I led the economic case for keeping fuel duty as low as possible, and it remains the case that cutting this needlessly high tax on an essential resource should still be reduced. This action, more than any other, will deliver increased consumer spending, new jobs, lower inflation and faster GDP growth.
It's time the Labour party lost the anti-driver label and at last saw private road user transport as a stimulus to economic development, not the ill-informed belief, trumpeted by Ed Miliband, that they are responsible for climate change.
Rachel Reeves's 3p Pay per mile on EVs is I fear the thin end of the wedge to make all vehicles, whatever their type of fuel, pay tax as they drive. Whilst Fuel Duty and VAT continue to deliver billions to the exchequer, both types of taxation cannot work alongside each other.
It's time the Government listened to and consulted drivers as to developing a long-term road user tax plan that's fair to the UK's 37 million drivers and the economy. FairFuelUK is here to contribute to that plan"
Thanks mainly to FairFuelUK, fuel duty has been frozen for
15 years and remains at its current level, which includes a temporary 5p cut.
Some armchair experts who despise supporting the UK’s 37 million drivers argue
that restoring or unfreezing fuel duty could generate more than £3 billion a
year. Utter nonsense!
The freeze on this regressive tax since 2011 means that
drivers have spent a larger portion of their disposable income, if any, in the
economy, and businesses have remained solvent due to lower-than-expected
transport costs.
Had the fuel price escalator been strictly adhered to, the UK
would now be facing a deep recession. It is now close to that situation.
No other tax exerts such a profound influence on economic
growth, inflation, employment, and business investment as the significant tax
on filling up at the pumps. Every part of our nation relies on road transport
for construction, small trade contractors, food, clothing, internet deliveries,
postal services, medical support, family cohesion, community interaction, and
mental well-being.
We heard from reliable Treasury sources that the Winter Budget may have introduced a 10p increase. Based on a reversal of Sunak’s 5p Covid
cut, along with an additional 5p per litre, which would have hindered economic growth.
Well thanks to you we stopped it happening !
I will continue to fight hard and push Rachel Reeves to implement a sensible
fiscal policy by incentivising lower transport costs through keeping Fuel Duty
frozen for the duration of this Parliament. Additionally, I will ensure that FairFuelUK’s PumpWatch is fully operational to prevent opportunistic
profiteering at the pumps.
Howard Cox, Founder of FairFuelUK
1. ....Cut fuel duty big, to stimulate the economy, reduce inflation, increase consumer spending & generate other taxes from the resultant impact of lowering this regressive tax
Ensure our PumpWatch programme launched in 2023, that the CMA backed, is re-introduced with teeth to make petrol & diesel pricing at the pumps fair, honest & transparent
Scrap the 2030 un-consulted and needless ban on new petrol/diesel car sales. What's the point of bankrupting the economy? When the virtue signalling 2030, Diesel/ Petrol Ban will cost at least 5 times the alleged environmental benefits. It's fiscal insanity!
Stop the continuing cash grabbing vitriolic myopic local authority warfare on UK's 37m drivers (These include ULEZs, LTNs, 15 Mins Localities, Cycle Lanes that cause congestion etc)
Recognise motorists are not just cash cows to be demonised by politicians & much of the ultra left wing media, but instead are the essential social & commercial heartbeat of our economy. They must not be used as an excuse to allegedly improve the environment.
There is no scientific evidence to suggest that any increase in CO2 is linked to global warming. And that mankind cannot make any difference to climate change.
