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Motor Vehicles: Registration

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of charging foreign-registered vehicles to use UK roads.

answeredDepartment for Transport

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Answering body
Department for Transport
Tabled
17 Dec 2024
Target answer date
19 Dec 2024
Answer
19 Dec 2024 · 2 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 17 Dec 2024

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of charging foreign-registered vehicles to use UK roads.

  2. 19 Dec 2024

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 19 Dec 2024

    Answer published

    Foreign-registered heavy goods vehicles (HGV) are already charged to use UK roads through the HGV Levy. This is in recognition of the fact that HGVs can cause greater damage to road surfaces than other vehicle types. There are no plans to implement a gene...

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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