The Government has restated its policies on how it taxes and charges road users, including its position on fuel duty and road pricing in response to a committee report.

It reiterated it would “not be proceeding with a national road user charging scheme in the next Parliament”, despite the Committee for Climate Change stating it would make ‘economic sense’ (Fleet News, October 22).

However, it said it was continuing to monitor progress of the recently introduced road pricing scheme in the Netherlands.

The full joint response from the Department for Transport (DfT) and Her Majesty’s Treasury (HMT) to the Transport Committee’s July report, ‘Taxes and Charges on Road Users’, is available at www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm/cmtran.htm.