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Lord Livermore (Lab)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 18 September 2025

Debate

Road Pricing

Contribution

I am grateful to the noble Lord for his question. As I said, the Government have no plans to introduce road pricing. As he will know, we need to balance several objectives: we must always ensure fiscal stability and sustainability, as he indicates; motoring must remain affordable for consumers; and we must support the decarbonisation of the transport sector. Achieving these objectives means that we need to take a balanced approach. As the noble Lord may know, electric vehicles are now in scope of vehicle excise duty, raising an additional £1.6 billion every year by the end of this Parliament. We have set the rates for company car tax to gradually normalise the taxation of electric vehicles. At the same time, in the last Budget we extended the temporary 5p fuel duty cut and cancelled the planned increase in line with inflation. Meanwhile, we are maintaining incentives for people to buy new electric vehicles, including investing £650 million in the electric car grant and £400 million to roll out charging infrastructure.

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