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HANSARDTopical QuestionsI am aware of proposals on the shipping and possible piping of hydrogen and the important part that must play. If we are to decarbonise all of British industry, we will need…04 Jul 2023HANSARDTopical QuestionsMy hon. Friend is quite right to ask that question. We would all like to see gas setting the price of electricity less frequently. That is why we are accelerating the take-up of…04 Jul 2023HANSARDRoad Fuel PricesAs ever, my hon. Friend champions his constituency in this House. I completely agree. That is why the monitoring function is so important in tandem with transparency. We have to…03 Jul 2023HANSARDRoad Fuel PricesThe hon. Lady is right to highlight the cost of living crisis and the level of taxes. That, of course, is why her party getting into power would be such a disaster for ordinary…03 Jul 2023HANSARDRoad Fuel PricesI would like to say I was shocked or surprised, but I am not because—as everyone in the House knows, except the tiny number who sit on the Liberal Democrat Bench—hypocrisy is…03 Jul 2023HANSARDRoad Fuel PricesThat is the closest I have ever seen the hon. Gentleman come to welcoming a Government response, so I shall take that with me. I do not mean to try your patience any more than I…03 Jul 2023HANSARDRoad Fuel PricesI thank my right hon. Friend for championing the consumer, as he always does. As he will be well aware, tax is a matter for the Chancellor, but the whole House will have heard his…03 Jul 2023HANSARDRoad Fuel PricesWe are furious that these price cuts have not been passed on to consumers. That is why we asked the CMA to investigate and to get further into the detail, and it is why we will…03 Jul 2023HANSARDRoad Fuel PricesMy hon. Friend has been assiduous and, as she has shown with her question, focused and detailed in trying to rectify a problem that the CMA has fully displayed today. It is an…03 Jul 2023HANSARDRoad Fuel PricesI will write to the hon. Gentleman with the precise details of everybody who will be included. He is right to highlight that this is not just an issue in urban areas. However, in…03 Jul 2023HANSARDRoad Fuel PricesThe right hon. Gentleman is drawing the wrong conclusion from the sky-high prices of the past year or two. It is sky-high international fossil fuel prices that caused the enormous…03 Jul 2023HANSARDRoad Fuel PricesAs so often, my hon. Friend has been ahead of me. The issue he raises is part of the picture; like him, I have observed that the captive market along motorways is subject to…03 Jul 2023HANSARDRoad Fuel PricesFollowing this report, the CMA has decided to look into the supermarkets and will report back as soon as next month.03 Jul 2023HANSARDRoad Fuel PricesWe have to make sure the market works. Transparency is our biggest single weapon, and we need to be doing this in a way that reaches people, be they digitally enabled or not; we…03 Jul 2023HANSARDRoad Fuel PricesTransparency.03 Jul 2023HANSARDRoad Fuel PricesI would be delighted to do so.03 Jul 2023HANSARDRoad Fuel PricesI thank my hon. Friend for his typically penetrating question. As I said, one of the recommendations is to maintain a monitoring function, which will help to give us the market…03 Jul 2023HANSARDRoad Fuel PricesI thank the right hon. Lady for her question and will ensure that His Majesty’s Treasury is aware of it.03 Jul 2023HANSARDRoad Fuel PricesI hope from as soon as next month, under a voluntary scheme. My hon. Friend gives me the perfect opportunity to repeat how determined I am to see the companies provide the data so…03 Jul 2023HANSARDRoad Fuel PricesI will take that as a further representation to His Majesty’s Treasury.03 Jul 2023