Question follow-through · 30009
Motor Vehicles: Excise Duties
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of increasing the level of Vehicle Excise Duty retained by local authorities to be directly allocated to local road maintenance.
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 7 Feb 2025
- Target answer date
- 11 Feb 2025
- Answer
- 17 Feb 2025 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
7 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of increasing the level of Vehicle Excise Duty retained by local authorities to be directly allocated to local road maintenance.
11 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
17 Feb 2025
Answer published
Vehicle Excise Duty (VED) is collected by the DVLA on behalf of HM Treasury. Estimates for the amount of VED raised in Essex is not available.The OBR forecast that VED will raise £8.3 billion in 2024-25. Revenue from motoring taxes helps to fund vital pub...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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