The cost of filling an average family car has now hit a record £100.
, Mr Kwarteng said that despite introducing a fuel duty cut "there remains widespread concern about the pace of the increase in prices at the forecourt and, that prices may not fall as much or as fast as they rise".
"Drivers should be getting a fair deal for fuel across the UK," said Mr Kwarteng. "Healthy competition between forecourts is key to achieving this, with competition working to keep pressure on prices."The Petrol Retailers Association says its members passed on the 5p fuel duty cut after it was announced in March, but wholesale fuel prices have continued to rise since then. It has left retailers "operating on extremely tight margins", it says.
Jack Cousens, head of roads policy at the AA, said while the group welcomed the review, "more urgent action is needed". The Liberal Democrats urged the government to cut fuel duty in rural areas to help families bearing the brunt of record petrol prices. Tony Danker, director-general of the CBI, forecast that spending on the High Street and on discretionary items will "go negative" and that Britons were already "trading down".
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