Motor Vehicles: Excise Duties
(asked on 20th May 2021) - View Source
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many cars were seized and destroyed for non-payment of road tax in each of the last three years.
This question was answered on 27th May 2021
In the last three financial years, 159,192 vehicles have been seized and 42,177 vehicles have been destroyed for non-payment of vehicle excise duty. The table below shows the figures for the last three financial years.
| Vehicles seized | Vehicles destroyed |
2020/21 | 24,660 | 7,109 |
2019/20 | 68,991 | 18,566 |
2018/19 | 65,541 | 16,502 |