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Mr. Pike
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what recent studies his Department has undertaken on the possibility of transferring vehicle excise duty to petrol.
Mr. Atkins
[holding answer 19 March 1990]: The arguments for and against replacing vehicle excise duty with an additional duty on fuel are well understood and are kept under review.