Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the merits of a potential role for the vehicle rental and leasing sector in increasing uptake of electric vehicles; and if he will bring forward the 2 per cent company car tax rate to April 2019 to help achieve that.

The vehicle rental and leasing sector has an important role to play in helping to achieve the government’s ambition for the majority of new cars to be zero emission by 2040.

The vehicle tax system incentivises the uptake of cars with low CO₂ emissions with favourable rates of Vehicle Excise Duty and company car tax.