Question follow-through · 33759

Motability: Impact Assessments

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department has undertaken an impact assessment for the (a) Motability Scheme and (b) Motability Operations.

answeredDepartment for Work and Pensions

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Answering body
Department for Work and Pensions
Tabled
25 Feb 2025
Target answer date
27 Feb 2025
Answer
3 Mar 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 25 Feb 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department has undertaken an impact assessment for the (a) Motability Scheme and (b) Motability Operations.

  2. 27 Feb 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 3 Mar 2025

    Answer published

    The Motability Scheme was scrutinised by a range of external bodies between 2018 and 2020, and a series of reports were produced:The Motability Scheme; Joint report by the Work and Pensions and Treasury Committees; May 2018;The Motability Scheme; National...

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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