Question follow-through · 20883
Motor Vehicles: Excise Duties
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, for what reason the Government has increased vehicle excise duty for (a) electric and (b) low emission vehicles; and whether she has made an assessment of the potential impact of this on trends in the level of consu
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 17 Dec 2024
- Target answer date
- 19 Dec 2024
- Answer
- 20 Dec 2024 · 3 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
17 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, for what reason the Government has increased vehicle excise duty for (a) electric and (b) low emission vehicles; and whether she has made an assessment of the potential impact of this on trends in the level of consu
19 Dec 2024
Target answer date
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20 Dec 2024
Answer published
Vehicle Excise Duty (VED) is a tax on car ownership from which electric vehicles are currently exempt. As announced by the previous Government at Autumn Statement 2022, from April 2025, electric and hybrid cars, vans and motorcycles will begin to pay VED ...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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