Question follow-through · 125760
Vehicle Certification Agency: Fees and Charges
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the answer of 25 March 2026 to Question 122545 on the Vehicle Certification Agency, whether her Department has set a target date for the Vehicle Certification Agency to eliminate its deficit.
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- Answering body
- Department for Transport
- Tabled
- 10 Apr 2026
- Target answer date
- 16 Apr 2026
- Answer
- 16 Apr 2026 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
10 Apr 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the answer of 25 March 2026 to Question 122545 on the Vehicle Certification Agency, whether her Department has set a target date for the Vehicle Certification Agency to eliminate its deficit.
16 Apr 2026
Target answer date
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16 Apr 2026
Answer published
The VCA is currently analysing responses to its recent consultation on increasing certain fees, which would support deficit reduction. If taken forward, any fee changes require the consent of this House through a fee order. We are therefore unable to set ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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