PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Electric Vehicles and Hybrid Vehicles (26 November 2018)

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he made an assessment of the potential effect of reducing incentives for plug-in hybrid and electric cars on the number of purchases of those vehicles before taking the decision to reduce those incentives.

Asked by:
Darren Jones (Labour)

Since 2011, the plug-in car grant has provided a discount to the price of over 170,000 cars, and disbursed over £0.7 billion to support the early market for ultra low emission vehicles. Based on internal assessments made before the change to grant rates in October 2018, we expect sales of ultra low emission cars to continue at similar levels in 2019 to those seen in 2018.

Answered by:
Jesse Norman (Conservative)
29 November 2018