Petrol price news : FairFuelUK is delighted with the Minister for Energy adopting PumpWatch

By Susie Watkins

16th Jan 2024 | Local News

Frome drivers have long been frustrated at local petrol prices. The pumps at Beckington December 2023. Image Frome Nub News
Frome drivers have long been frustrated at local petrol prices. The pumps at Beckington December 2023. Image Frome Nub News

Millions of drivers will be able to get the latest petrol station prices at the click of a button, as the government sets out next steps to bring fair prices back to the pumps and transform how the UK shops for its fuel.

Under new proposals for a Pumpwatch scheme set out today (16 January), forecourts across the country will be legally required to share live information on their pump prices within 30 minutes of any change in price, which could save motorists 3p per litre on fuel by helping them find the best deal at the pump. 

  • New real-time fuel price data will help drivers shop for fuel, via navigation apps, in-car devices and comparison websites.
  • Industry asked for views on new legal requirement to share prices within 30 minutes of a change.
  • Part of government action to further drive down pump prices by bringing transparency and competition back to the forecourts.

Howard Cox Founder of the FairFuelUK campaign and Secretary to the Fair Fuel APPG for motorists and hauliers said: "Profit per litre has increased massively for petrol and diesel since before the Covid Pandemic.

"It is way past time that PumpWatch has not been in operation. So, I am more than delighted that FairFuelUK's decade of campaigning to see fairer, transparent, and honest pump pricing is nearing fruition.

"Years of lobbying the Government seems to have paid off. I am delighted that a PumpWatch consumer pricing watchdog will roll out with teeth to protect UK's millions of hard-pressed drivers from perennial profiteering by the fuel supply chain at the pumps. I want to put on record my thanks to Minister Claire Coutinho for listening, acting and ensuring there is nowhere to hide for those fuel supply chain bandits." 

In her Twitter 'X' post on Tuesday, Claire Coutinho  "Thanks Howard & for all your persistence on this issue over many years. Drivers must get a fair price at the pump."

Late last year Leader of the House, Penny Mordaunt MP, responded from the Despatch Box: "The Government are looking into PumpWatch, and I join her (MP Andrea Leadsom) in commending the work of FairFuelUK, which has done a huge amount to champion the rights of motorists and to remind us that holding fuel duty, and cutting it where we can, is good for the economy."

     

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