Written questions

Motorcycles: Excise Duties

Commons · Question 127227 · Tabled 14 Apr 2026 · Treasury · Official record

Answered 22 Apr 2026

Question

Asked by Pippa Heylings

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

Answered by Dan Tomlinson, 22 Apr 2026

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...