1 MP Backs Biodiesel Tax Break Campaign

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MP backs break campaign

29 June 2011

Liberal Democrat MP Andrew George is backing a project to keep tax breaks for business who produce biodiesel.

Producers transforming cooking oil into biodiesel currently benefit from a 20p differential however that is because of end next April.

The St Ives MP, who leads the Lib Dem Environment Team, has been consulting with the UK sustainable biodiesel alliance.

Mr George said "a number of little businesses in Cornwall presently earn money from used cooking oil".

He included: "In order to be able to get this sort of market going it does need simply a bit of lift which can be found in the type of tax inescapable."

Biodiesel is a blend of traditional diesel, rapeseed and vegetable oils.

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