Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether his Department plans to take steps to incentivise the take up of electric vehicles in the context of changes to Vehicle Excise Duty in the Autumn Statement 2022.

From 2025, electric vehicles will still have preferential first year rates of VED in comparison to the most polluting vehicles, in addition to having preferential rates of company car tax out to April 2028.

The UK has one of the most ambitious programmes of any country in the world to phase out the sale of internal combustion engine cars and vans by 2030. The UK was the first G7 country to make this commitment, demonstrating a real environmental benefit of Brexit.