Other possibilities include the levying of road fund licence charges according to postcodes.

For instance, road fund licence charges and petrol prices tend to creep up gradually, whereas decisions in the sphere of public transport can effect substantial changes almost immediately.

It shows how the BBC's income from TV licence charges is spent - that is, what proportion of the whole (100%) goes to the different branches of the company.

Colchester Hackney Carriage Association had pleaded with the borough council to relent after they were told cabbies would face five or six per cent increases on licence charges this year.

Among the key service improvements since SEARS got underway in June 2008 are annual savings of almost £150,000 to the sheep farming industry in annual groundwater licence charge waivers and around 2,200 less inspections for land managers.