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Written Question
Motor Vehicles: Excise Duties
Tuesday 3rd December 2024

Asked by: James Cleverly (Conservative - Braintree)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much Vehicle Excise Duty was raised from vehicles registered to addresses in the municipal area of Essex County Council in the last two financial years.

Answered by Lilian Greenwood - Government Whip, Lord Commissioner of HM Treasury

The information requested can only be provided at disproportionate cost, as each relevant vehicle record would need to be manually interrogated to calculate the vehicle excise duty paid in the last two financial years.


Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 14 Feb 2019
Oral Answers to Questions

"4. What funds he has made available for the repair of local roads. ..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 14 Feb 2019
Oral Answers to Questions

"I thank my hon. Friend for that answer. He knows, because I have lobbied him relentlessly, that we are bidding for funding from the second road investment strategy for the A120 in my constituency, but there are other roads in my constituency, including the A131 and a number of local …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 11 Feb 2019
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"Part of the criticism that my right hon. Friend’s Department has received has arisen because Seaborne Freight was seen as a company that had no track record in shipping. We now know that Arklow was the company behind Seaborne Freight, and it had a huge amount of experience in shipping. …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 30 Jan 2019
Delay Repay: Great Eastern Main Line

"I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Colchester (Will Quince) on securing this debate on a perennial concern for my constituents.

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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 30 Jan 2019
Delay Repay: Great Eastern Main Line

"My hon. Friend is absolutely right. Work-life balance is very important. We recognise that commercial activity underpins the funding of public services—that is key—but life balance is also really important. My hon. Friend is the father of two lovely little girls, and I know that he is very proud of …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 30 Jan 2019
Delay Repay: Great Eastern Main Line

"My hon. Friend is absolutely right.

My hon. Friend the Member for Colchester rightly focused on Delay Repay, and I echo his calls. I will not repeat the requests he made of the Minister—from where I am standing, I can see the copious notes that the Minister has written, so …..."

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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 30 Jan 2019
Delay Repay: Great Eastern Main Line

"My hon. Friend is absolutely right.

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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 30 Jan 2019
Delay Repay: Great Eastern Main Line

"Yes, indeed; it would be good news, and I would strongly urge both the Department and the train operating company to be very vocal if we get it introduced in a timely manner, because it would be welcomed...."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 11 Oct 2018
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