Environment secretary Hilary Benn has defended government plans to increase road tax on used cars.
Mr Benn said that soaring fuel prices were forcing cars off the road, reducing emissions and fuel consumption and making people "think twice" about the journeys they make by car.
He told the BBC's Politics Show: "Three out of every four cars that are sold in the country are actually second-hand cars."
"It will act as an incentive as people take decisions about what car, second hand or new, to buy," he added.
New government proposals will see more than a million used-car owners' duty costs almost double to £400 a year, reports the Telegraph.
And car loan customers who bought a second-hand car between 2001 and 2006 could see the new duty costs back dated.
More than nine million motorists will be hit by the government's proposed change to road tax, according to the Press Association.
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