MPs are demanding fairer prices at the pumps with some families spending more than 10 per cent of their income filling up.

Motorists are faced with paying in excess of 130p a litre at the pumps, despite a substantial fall in the cost of oil since April.

Keighley MP Kris Hopkins believes the high prices are putting additional pressure on small and medium-sized businesses and hauliers and in turn damaging economic recovery.

He is one of more than 80 MPs who have signed a motion ahead of a Commons debate on fuel prices later this month, saying the high costs are pricing people off the road and in turn creating less tax revenue.