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Electric Vehicles: Excise Duties

Asked by Dr Simon OpherLabourTreasuryTabled Answered 13 October 2025UIN 77721

The question

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will raise the expensive car supplement threshold for electric and zero emission vehicles.

Answered by Dan Tomlinson

As set out at Autumn Budget 2024, the government recognises the disproportionate impact of the current VED Expensive Car Supplement threshold for those purchasing zero emission cars and will consider raising the threshold for zero emission cars only at a future fiscal event, to make it easier to buy electric cars.

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