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Deirdre Michie

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Oil and gas industry welcomes Chancellors’ Budget

The UK oil and gas industry has welcomed some of the measures announced by the Chancellor in today’s Budget, adding that now close cooperation with the sector is essential to...

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Fuel duty may be frozen but the fight goes on

The chancellor George Osborne scrapped the 3 pence per litre rise in fuel duty scheduled for this January. The decision not to increase the tax was confirmed by Osborne in...
Government is being urged to rethink plans to hit businesses with a massive hike in fuel tax in the move to end the rebate on red diesel that will come into effect just days after the Chancellor cut fuel duty by 5p a litre.

Opinion

Warning over red diesel price hike

...after the Chancellor cut fuel duty by 5p a litre. Fuel technology specialists SulNOx Group Plc said the move to end the rebate on red diesel would hit consumers in...

Opinion

Budget 2021: Hope for hydrogen hub

...the global hydrogen economy.” George Kieffer, chairman, Freeport East Project Board, said: “We are delighted to have been chosen by the Chancellor as one of the first new Freeports in the...