Electric Vehicles: Scotland

(asked on 2nd February 2021) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much and what proportion of the plug-in vehicle grant has been allocated to Caithness, Sutherland, and Easter Ross.


Answered by
Rachel Maclean Portrait
Rachel Maclean
This question was answered on 8th February 2021

The Department holds data on plug-in vehicle grants but this database does not provide the geographic breakdown required.

Up to the end of September 2020, an estimated £0.2m was provided to new plug-in car grant eligible models that were registered for the first time to an address in Caithness, Sutherland, and Easter Ross, which was 0.03% of the estimated total for the UK.

Note that the plug-in car grant provides a discount on the price of brand new low-emission vehicles through a grant the government gives to vehicle dealerships and manufacturers when consumers purchase an eligible vehicle model – the grant is therefore allocated based on consumer demand rather than through any geographic formula.

Grants for vehicles other than cars have been excluded here because we do not have an equivalent estimation method readily available.

The financial value has been estimated from car registration data by applying the amount of available grant for eligible models at the time of registration. This estimate does not mean that every car registered received the grant nor that other cars did not receive the grant before the end of September 2020 but had not registered the car yet.

Reticulating Splines