Question follow-through · 42081
Motor Vehicles: Taxation
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will take steps with Cabinet colleagues to increase taxation on (a) higher-polluting vehicles and (b) tax pickup trucks used for personal purposes as private vehicles.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 27 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 31 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 3 Apr 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
27 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will take steps with Cabinet colleagues to increase taxation on (a) higher-polluting vehicles and (b) tax pickup trucks used for personal purposes as private vehicles.
31 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
3 Apr 2025
Answer published
The Government uses the tax system to support a variety of objectives including our legally binding climate targets, including the transition to electric vehicles (EVs). At Autumn Budget 2024, the Government announced changes to the Vehicle Excise Duty (V...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Motor Vehicles: Taxation
2 Sept 2025 · To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether her Department plans to reintroduce measures to increase tax on higher polluting vehicles.
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2 Sept 2025 · To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether her Department plans to review proposals to tax pickup trucks as personal vehicles.
Stamp Duty Land Tax: Repayments
28 Aug 2026 · To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will exempt Armed Forces personnel on mandatory overseas postings from the three year time limit on Stamp Duty Land Tax refunds.