What is the Fuel Finder scheme?

Fuel Finder is the UK Government’s open data scheme for road fuel prices: since 2 February 2026, retailers selling petrol or diesel to the public have had to report every price change within 30 minutes, and the prices are shared with the apps and websites drivers use to compare them. This site currently holds 8,188 forecourts from the Fuel Finder data, and 7,876 of them have an up-to-date unleaded (E10) price in today's national figures.

Who runs Fuel Finder?

The scheme is a UK government service published by the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, which describes it as bringing “together live retail fuel prices and forecourt information across the UK”. It is set up by the Motor Fuel Price (Open Data) Regulations 2025, made under Part 1 of the Data (Use and Access) Act 2025. The regulations appoint an operator, which they call the aggregator, to collect the prices and share them, and make the Competition and Markets Authority the body responsible for enforcing compliance.

Why was Fuel Finder set up?

It came out of the CMA’s road fuel market study, whose final report in July 2023 found that “competition between retailers has weakened in recent years”, with retail margins rising significantly since 2019. Its first recommendation was that the government should create, on a statutory basis, “an open data fuel finder scheme” requiring retailers to share their prices on an open, real-time basis, so drivers could easily compare prices in any area of the UK. In the meantime a voluntary interim scheme ran, with participating retailers publishing their own price data; it closed on 1 May 2026.

When did Fuel Finder start?

Price reporting became a legal duty on 2 February 2026. The regulations were made on 17 December 2025, and came into force in two stages: the registration rules on 18 December 2025, and the duties to report and share prices on 2 February 2026, by when every forecourt had to be registered. The CMA said that from 1 May 2026 it would start prioritising enforcement action against forecourts that don’t comply.

What do retailers have to report?

A new price must reach the scheme within 30 minutes of the change. According to the government’s guidance for retailers, that applies to anyone who sells petrol or diesel to the public, from a single petrol station of any size to chains, unmanned sites and garages that sell fuel as part of another business. Businesses that only sell fuel business-to-business, sell it in jerry cans, only sell red diesel for agricultural use, or run HGV depot sales on pre-arranged logistics are exempt. Changes to forecourt information, such as amenities and facilities, must be reported within 3 days.

Failing to report is against the law. Under the CMA’s enforcement guidance, the aggregator refers a case to the CMA when it can’t resolve it informally, the CMA can issue a compliance notice, and if that is breached it can impose a penalty of up to 1% of worldwide turnover as a fixed amount, up to 5% of daily worldwide turnover as a daily rate, or both.

Who can use Fuel Finder data?

Anyone who registers. The government lists comparison websites, app and website developers, professional organisations, academics, journalists and individuals as users. The data covers current prices by fuel type, forecourt details such as address, operator and brand, amenities and opening hours, and when each price was last updated. It can be downloaded as a CSV file updated twice a day, with an email subscription for each new file, or read through an API, and access needs a GOV.UK One Login. The government doesn’t run its own comparison tool: the scheme’s page says drivers can find the information on participating third-party apps and websites.

How do I report a wrong fuel price?

Use the government’s report an error in fuel prices or forecourt details service. It is for exactly this case: an app or website using Fuel Finder data showing a price different from the one charged at the pump. You give the forecourt’s name and address or postcode, the date and time, what was wrong and where you saw it, and can add a photo. Reports can be made anonymously, and may be shared with the forecourt operator or local Trading Standards. The reporting form itself is on the Fuel Finder service.

Reporting to us won’t fix it. Prices on this site come straight from the scheme, so a correction has to come through the scheme.

How does Fuel Tracker UK use Fuel Finder?

This site reads the Fuel Finder feed every 30 minutes and shows each price exactly as the retailer reported it, without filtering or re-ordering by brand. Some reported prices are wrong or out of date, so each one is checked before it goes into a national figure: a price unchanged for more than 60 days, or too far from the national median to be a real forecourt price, still appears on its station page with a warning but is left out of averages and rankings. Right now 86 unleaded prices are shown on station pages but left out of the national figures as out of date or implausible.

Those national figures drive the town pages, the price history, the supermarket comparison, the motorway services prices and the monthly price report. Every price page credits the scheme as its source, under the Open Government Licence. Fuel Tracker UK is an independent app and is not affiliated with or endorsed by HM Government.

Prices on this page were read 13 October 2026 at 15:29. They refresh on their own; the analysis around them is dated at the top.