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The Budget

I am grateful for the hon. Gentleman’s support for our measures on fuel, which I think will provide real help to people in rural areas such as his and mine. The hon. Gentleman’s question fuel for heating is an important one. He will know that we have put in place an additional supplementary charge on North sea oil extraction in order to provide the resources that we need to make the reductions in fuel duty, which are important. The Department of Energy and Climate Change has recently asked the Office of Fair Trading to look specifically into the domestic heating oil market, and we await its report with interest. If I may abuse this procedure slightly, in response to an earlier question from my hon. Friend the Member for Cardiff North, I am told that I have a letter, which I have not seen yet, from Jane Hutt, the Minister in the Welsh Assembly Government, saying that their officials will be in touch with ours to discuss enterprise zones.