1 MP Backs Biodiesel Tax Break Campaign
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MP backs break project

29 June 2011

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

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

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

Mr George said "a variety of small services in Cornwall presently generate income from utilized cooking oil".

He included: "In order to have the ability to get this kind of market going it does require simply a little bit of lift which comes in the type of tax foregone."

Biodiesel is a mix of standard diesel, rapeseed and veggie oils.

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