Written Question·Treasury·UIN 81343

Motability: VAT

Tabled: 13 October 2025
Answered: 21 October 2025

Question

Helen Whately

ConservativeFaversham and Mid Kent

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will release the methodology and assumptions behind HMRC’s estimate that Motability’s VAT reliefs cost £1.21 billion in 2023-24.

Answer

Dan Tomlinson
HMRC publishes estimates of the costs of tax reliefs in its annual Non-structural tax relief statistics publication. The last publication on 5 December 2024 showed an estimate and forecast for the financial years 2023-24 and 2024-25 of £1,210m for the rel...

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