Question follow-through · 94563

Motability: Motor Vehicles and Wheelchairs

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of changes to the vehicles available within the Motability scheme on the cost of wheelchair accessible and adapted vehicles.

answeredDepartment for Work and Pensions

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Answering body
Department for Work and Pensions
Tabled
25 Nov 2025
Target answer date
4 Dec 2025
Answer
4 Dec 2025 · 9 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 25 Nov 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of changes to the vehicles available within the Motability scheme on the cost of wheelchair accessible and adapted vehicles.

  2. 4 Dec 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 4 Dec 2025

    Answer published

    The Motability Scheme is a lifeline for disabled people in the UK, leasing cars, wheelchair accessible vehicles, scooters and powered wheelchairs in exchange for part or all of their qualifying mobility allowance. The Scheme will continue to offer a choic...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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