Written Question·Treasury·UIN 118973

Motorcycles: Excise Duties

Tabled: 9 March 2026
Answered: 17 March 2026

Question

Pippa Heylings

Liberal DemocratSouth Cambridgeshire

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of differential treatment of electric and internal combustion engine motorcycles under the proposed electric Vehicle Excise Duty framework on drivers;

Answer

Dan Tomlinson
All UK-registered electric and plug-in hybrid cars will pay Electric Vehicle Excise Duty (eVED). Other vehicle types such as vans, buses, coaches, motorcycles and heavy goods vehicles will be out of scope of the tax upon its introduction. This is because ...

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