Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if his Department will provide support for the vehicle import tax liabilities of a member of the armed forces who has purchased a vehicle under the terms of the Personal Export Scheme and is redeployed to a theatre where they cannot take their vehicle with them and is unable to sell it in their current deployment because it is right hand drive.

Personal taxation is a matter for HMRC. However, this Department provides financial support to mitigate financial disadvantage that Service personnel may face, in addition to core pay and X-Factor. This includes overseas private vehicle provision which assists Service personnel with the costs of accessing a vehicle overseas.

Expense and allowance policy is kept under constant review and where evidence of new, persistent and common disadvantage is identified, options are considered in the context of the tax implications both for individual Service personnel and the Department.