Written Question·Treasury·UIN 127227

Motorcycles: Excise Duties

Tabled: 14 April 2026
Answered: 22 April 2026

Question

Pippa Heylings

Liberal DemocratSouth Cambridgeshire

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

Answer

Dan Tomlinson
The government will implement electric Vehicle Excise Duty (eVED) as an additional mileage based add-on to Vehicle Excise Duty (VED) for electric and plug-in hybrid cars, which is designed to replace the fuel duty revenues which will be lost as petrol and...

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