Written Question·Treasury·UIN 49208

Motor Vehicles: Excise Duties

Tabled: 29 April 2025
Answered: 7 May 2025

Question

Lizzi Collinge

LabourMorecambe and Lunesdale

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many vehicles manufactured prior to the 2020 changes to Vehicle Excise Duty (VED) rates are subject to the increased diesel vehicle supplement due to their first registration date falling after those changes; wh

Answer

James Murray
Since 1 April 2020, the Worldwide Harmonised Light Vehicle Test Procedures (WLTP) have been used by the DVLA to measure the CO2 emissions of a car, rather than the CO2 emissions stated by an EU Certificate of Conformity or a UK approval certificate. Where...

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