Armed Forces: Fuels

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what planning assumptions his Department made regarding the unit cost of principal hydrocarbon fuels used by HM Armed Forces in determining its budget allocations for (a) 2007-08 and (b) 2008-09. (219233)

The final Defence Corporate Planning Assumptions used when setting budget allocations for 2007-08 and 2008-09 were as follows:

*Propulsion fuel prices*
£ per cubic metre
	2007-08	2008-09
Aviation Fuel	350	440
Marine Fuel	280	360
Road Diesel	880	1090
Other Propulsion Fuel	860	1020

Volume 479: debated on Thursday 17 July 2008