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Electric Vehicles: Excise Duties

Asked by Charlie DewhirstConservativeDepartment for TransportTabled Answered 16 December 2025UIN 97027

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To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the oral Answer of 20 November 2025, Official Report, Column 834, on Motorists, and further to the point of order of 25 November 2025, Official report, Column 261, on what date was she first aware o

Answered by Keir Mather

The Secretary of State has regular discussions with HM Treasury ministers about a range of topics, but final tax decisions are for the Chancellor of the Exchequer to make and are announced at the Budget.

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