HC Deb 27 November 2000 vol 357 c381W
Mr. Peter Bradley

To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, pursuant to his answer of 21 November 2000,Official Report, column 105W, what evidence there is concerning the relationship between fuel prices at the pumps and the recent fall in wholesale gasoline prices. [140357]

Mrs. Liddell

Fuel prices at the pumps are influenced, among other things, by wholesale gasoline prices. The relationship between the two depends on short and long-term competitive market forces in both the wholesale and retail markets.