Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 2 November 2016 to Question 13949, if he will publish the Government's analysis on determining any loss of VED revenues following VW Group's use of defeat devices; and whether any of the models among the 1.2 million vehicles affected were subsequently re-banded.

The Vehicle Excise Duty (VED) liability for any particular vehicle is set in accordance with its certificate of conformity at the time of first registration, and consequently consumers are paying VED correctly.

Any revisions to the software used in the affected models are being assessed by the relevant European approval authorities. This comprises a series of checks, including that the CO2 emissions remain the same or better.