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PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Motor Vehicles: Excise Duties (18 July 2017)

Question Asked

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many disabled motorists received an exemption from the vehicle excise duty in (a) 2014-15, (b) 2015-16 and (c) 2016-17.

Asked by:
Peter Dowd (Labour)

Answer

The information is not recorded in the format requested. The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency’s vehicle records change constantly as vehicle licensing and registration transactions are processed, so that the information requested can only be provided as a snapshot at a particular time. The table below provides the number of vehicles in the historic and disabled tax classes in February 2015, 2016 and 2017:

Tax Class

Feb-15

Feb-16

Feb-17

Historic

532,239

570,430

604,174

Disabled

1,345,446

1,315,103

1,266,523


Answered by:
Jesse Norman (Conservative)
21 July 2017

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