Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what information his Department holds on the number of people in (a) Batley and Spen constituency, (b) West Yorkshire and (c) England who have had a Government-funded leased Motability car removed from their possession in each of the last seven years.

The Department does not routinely collect information on the numbers of people who have had to return a Motability vehicle. Also, the Department does not have data available on the numbers who have leased a vehicle under the Motability scheme by year and parliamentary constituency. As the information requested is not readily available, it could only be provided at disproportionate cost.

Motability is an independent charitable organisation that is wholly responsible for the administration of the Motability scheme, including collating its own management information. Questions relating to this aspect of the scheme’s operation should be directed to Motability itself.