Question follow-through · 127371
Electric Vehicles: Prices
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps she is taking to help reduce the upfront costs of EVs.
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- Answering body
- Department for Transport
- Tabled
- 14 Apr 2026
- Target answer date
- 16 Apr 2026
- Answer
- 21 Apr 2026 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
14 Apr 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps she is taking to help reduce the upfront costs of EVs.
16 Apr 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
21 Apr 2026
Answer published
The Government is reducing the upfront costs of zero emission vehicles by providing grants for zero emission cars, vans, trucks, and wheelchair accessible vehicles; this includes the £2 billion Electric Car Grant, which has already helped over 90,000 dri...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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