Electric Vehicles: Excise Duties
Commons · Question 87638 · Tabled 3 Nov 2025 · Treasury · Official record
Answered 11 Nov 2025
Question
Asked by Ben Maguire
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the application of Vehicle Excise Duty on (a) new and (b) existing electric vehicles from 1 April 2025 on the (i) affordability and (ii) trends in the level of
Answer
Answered by Dan Tomlinson, 11 Nov 2025
Vehicle Excise Duty (VED) is a tax on vehicles used or kept on public roads. As announced by the Government at Autumn Statement 2022, from April 2025, zero emission and hybrid cars, vans and motorcycles now pay VED in a similar way to petrol and diesel ve...