Trade and Industry - Fifth Report
Here you can browse the report together with the Proceedings of the Committee. The published report was ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 6 March 2001.
CONTENTS
Terms of Reference
LIST OF WITNESSES
LIST OF MEMORANDA INCLUDED
IN THE MINUTES OF EVIDENCE
LIST OF APPENDICES TO
THE MINUTES OF EVIDENCE
REPORT
Our inquiry
The work of other Committees
Scope of this report:
vehicle taxation
Scope of report: environmental
impact
II INTRODUCTION
Fuel prices
Fuel taxation
Overall levels of taxation
Price of crude oil
Pump prices
Government objectives
III IMPACT OF UK FUEL
TAXATION
Overall impact on
British trade and industry
The UK haulage industry
The scale of the
industry
Competitiveness with
Europe
Cabotage
Return journeys
Overseas drivers
Ireland
Overcapacity
Insolvency and bankruptcy
Farming
Bulk buying
Impact of fuel prices
Retail
Bus and Coach
Oil Companies
Elasticity of demand
The point at which duty
is levied
Petrol Retail Industry
Rail Freight
IV THE PRE-BUDGET REPORT
V CONCLUSIONS
SUMMARY OF CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
MINUTES OF PROCEEDINGS RELATING TO THE REPORT
TRADE AND INDUSTRY COMMITTEE REPORTS PARLIAMENT
1997 -
MINUTES OF EVIDENCE
APPENDICES TO THE MINUTES OF EVIDENCE
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