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Amendment of the law

I am grateful for the opportunity to clarify that, ideally, we would abolish fuel duty, and we have suggested a number of fairer ways of taxing motorists. One of the most innovative is a showroom tax, which would place a much higher duty on the most polluting brand new vehicles, so that I am afraid those hon. Members who want to spend their increased salaries next week on Porsche Cayennes would face a much higher bill. That is our approach to that taxation—we need a much fairer system.