Fuel Prices and the Cost of Living - 16th March 2011

Here are the climate-related sections of speeches by MPs during the Commons debate Fuel Prices and the Cost of Living.

Full text: https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2011-03-16/debates/110316110000001/FuelPricesandtheCostofLiving

Caroline Lucas (Brighton, Pavilion) (Green)

Does the hon. Lady agree that the fuel duty escalator is an important tool to send a clear message that oil prices are going to have to continue to rise, not only for geopolitical reasons but because of peak oil and climate change, and that a way of ensuring that the poorest are not hardest hit would be to scrap the recent VAT increase in totality and replace it with a crackdown on things such as tax evasion and tax avoidance?

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