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.
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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
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.
4 Dec 2025
Target answer date
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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...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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