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To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the implications are of cross-border roads in Northern Ireland in relation to implementing the proposed lorry road user charge. - Inc ref to discussion paper, copy in Library.
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the implications are of cross-border roads in Northern Ireland in relation to implementing the proposed lorry road user charge. - Inc ref to discussion paper, copy in Library.
Asked by
Baroness McIntosh of Pickering
(Conservative)
Answered by
John Healey
(Labour)
Answering body
Treasury
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Tabled on
12 January 2005
For answer on
19 January 2005
Answered on
19 January 2005
Miss McIntosh: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what the implications are of cross-border roads in Northern Ireland in
relation to implementing the proposed lorry road-user charge. [209260]
John Healey: The Government are committed to introducing a distance-based lorry road-user charge, with offsetting tax cuts for those
who buy their fuel in the UK. We have been developing proposals in consultation with the haulage industry and, as announced in the
pre-Budget report (Cm 6408), we have today issued a discussion paper, which considers various details of how the charge might
operate in practice. The discussion paper is available in the Library of the House.
Land borders always provide challenges for distance- based road charging systems, both in determining UK distances travelled to
which any charge should be applied, and in ensuring that vehicles crossing the boundary are complying with the charging
requirements.
The UK land boundary in Northern Ireland presents particular challenges, with over 300 open crossing points between the UK and the
Republic of Ireland. A number of cross-border routes also include roads which pass into and out of the UK a number of times, in some
cases without visibly identifiable crossing points.
HM Customs and Excise, who are developing LRUC on behalf of the Government, are including these requirements in their specification
for a modern, automated system for the UK.
Subjects
Freight; Large goods vehicles; Northern Ireland; Roads; Tolls
Date
19 January 2005
Reference
209260; 429 c984W;429 c986W
House
House of Commons