{ "dataset": "fuel.prices", "generated": "2026-08-28T11:40:15.998Z", "licence": { "compilation": "CC BY 4.0", "compilation_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/", "attribution": "Tariff Tracker, tarifftracker.io, published by PEF Consulting Partners Limited", "underlying": "The figures themselves belong to the bodies named in each dataset's sources. Most are Crown copyright under the Open Government Licence v3. Supplier tariff rates belong to the suppliers who publish them. Check the source terms before you rely on any of it commercially.", "corrections": "If a figure here is wrong, say so and we will correct it and record that we did." }, "docs": "https://tarifftracker.io/api/", "fields": "https://tarifftracker.io/api/v1/dictionary", "as_of": "2026-08-25", "latest": { "week_beginning": "2026-08-24", "petrol_ppl": 161.63, "diesel_ppl": 182.82 }, "year_ago": { "week_beginning": "2025-08-25", "petrol_ppl": 133.91, "diesel_ppl": 141.92 }, "duty_ppl": 52.95, "vat_pct": 20, "cma_monitoring": { "report": "CMA, enhanced road fuel monitoring report, August 2026", "report_date": "2026-08-18", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/enhanced-road-fuel-monitoring-report-august-2026", "supermarket_margin_ppl_june_2026": 10.4, "non_supermarket_margin_ppl_june_2026": 12, "supermarket_margin_ppl_2025_avg": 9.8, "non_supermarket_margin_ppl_2025_avg": 11.3, "quotes": [ "This shows that, on average, non-supermarket retailers are consistently more expensive than supermarket retailers.", "supermarket retailers' average margins decreased by 0.5ppl in May 2026 and decreased further from 10.7ppl in May 2026 to 10.4ppl in June 2026, which is 0.6ppl above the average margin in 2025 of 9.8ppl", "non-supermarket retailers' average margins remained constant from April 2026 to May 2026 and increased from 11.3ppl in May 2026 to 12.0ppl in June 2026, which is 0.7ppl above the 2025 average margin of 11.3ppl", "the continued use of passive pricing strategies by the majority of retailers is causing sustained high margins" ] }, "fuel_finder": { "what": "The statutory scheme that makes every UK forecourt publish its live prices.", "live_since": "2026-02-02", "regulations": "The Motor Fuel Price (Open Data) Regulations 2025, SI 2025/1356", "regulations_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/1356/contents/made", "operator": "VE3 Global Limited, appointed by the Secretary of State", "enforced_from": "2026-05-01", "reporting_rule": "Stations must submit price updates within 30 minutes of any change, and the aggregator must update its API within 5 minutes of a submission.", "access": "Free, under the Open Government Licence, through the developer portal with a GOV.UK One Login. API with OAuth 2.0, or a CSV of every station published twice a day. There is no unregistered public endpoint.", "portal": "https://www.developer.fuel-finder.service.gov.uk/access-latest-fuelprices", "guidance": "https://www.gov.uk/guidance/access-the-latest-fuel-prices-and-forecourt-data-via-api-or-email", "old_scheme": "The voluntary retailer feeds that preceded it closed on 1 May 2026." }, "sources": [ { "name": "DESNZ, weekly road fuel prices", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/weekly-road-fuel-prices" }, { "name": "CMA, enhanced road fuel monitoring report, August 2026", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/enhanced-road-fuel-monitoring-report-august-2026" }, { "name": "The Motor Fuel Price (Open Data) Regulations 2025", "url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/1356/contents/made" }, { "name": "Fuel Finder, access the latest fuel prices", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/guidance/access-the-latest-fuel-prices-and-forecourt-data-via-api-or-email" }, { "name": "Fuel Finder collection page", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/fuel-finder" } ], "caveats": [ "The weekly figures are a national average of ultra low sulphur petrol and diesel across the whole UK. Your forecourt can sit well above or below them, which is exactly why the station level scheme below exists.", "The series is published every Tuesday for the week beginning the previous Monday. The week shown here began 24 August 2026. If today is much later than that, a newer week exists and this page is behind.", "The CMA margin figures are indicators built from retailer data, not statements of profit, and they run two months behind the price series.", "Station level prices on this site are switched off until our Fuel Finder access is granted. We do not show a search box that answers from stale data." ], "count": 13, "rows": [ { "week_beginning": "2026-06-01", "petrol_ppl": 158.74, "diesel_ppl": 184.11, "page": "https://tarifftracker.io/fuel/" }, { "week_beginning": "2026-06-08", "petrol_ppl": 157.95, "diesel_ppl": 181.79, "page": "https://tarifftracker.io/fuel/" }, { "week_beginning": "2026-06-15", "petrol_ppl": 155.54, "diesel_ppl": 176.71, "page": "https://tarifftracker.io/fuel/" }, { "week_beginning": "2026-06-22", "petrol_ppl": 153.26, "diesel_ppl": 172.47, "page": "https://tarifftracker.io/fuel/" }, { "week_beginning": "2026-06-29", "petrol_ppl": 151.02, "diesel_ppl": 167.12, "page": "https://tarifftracker.io/fuel/" }, { "week_beginning": "2026-07-06", "petrol_ppl": 149.8, "diesel_ppl": 164.77, "page": "https://tarifftracker.io/fuel/" }, { "week_beginning": "2026-07-13", "petrol_ppl": 150.53, "diesel_ppl": 164.52, "page": "https://tarifftracker.io/fuel/" }, { "week_beginning": "2026-07-20", "petrol_ppl": 152.29, "diesel_ppl": 167.08, "page": "https://tarifftracker.io/fuel/" }, { "week_beginning": "2026-07-27", "petrol_ppl": 156.13, "diesel_ppl": 173.97, "page": "https://tarifftracker.io/fuel/" }, { "week_beginning": "2026-08-03", "petrol_ppl": 159.89, "diesel_ppl": 179.19, "page": "https://tarifftracker.io/fuel/" }, { "week_beginning": "2026-08-10", "petrol_ppl": 162.15, "diesel_ppl": 181.97, "page": "https://tarifftracker.io/fuel/" }, { "week_beginning": "2026-08-17", "petrol_ppl": 161.8, "diesel_ppl": 182.45, "page": "https://tarifftracker.io/fuel/" }, { "week_beginning": "2026-08-24", "petrol_ppl": 161.63, "diesel_ppl": 182.82, "page": "https://tarifftracker.io/fuel/" } ] }