Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many people received an exemption from the vehicle excise duty for historic cars in (a) 2014-15, (b) 2015-16 and (c) 2016-17.
The information is not recorded in the format requested. The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency’s vehicle records change constantly as vehicle licensing and registration transactions are processed, so that the information requested can only be provided as a snapshot at a particular time. The table below provides the number of vehicles in the historic and disabled tax classes in February 2015, 2016 and 2017:
Tax Class | Feb-15 | Feb-16 | Feb-17 |
Historic | 532,239 | 570,430 | 604,174 |
Disabled | 1,345,446 | 1,315,103 | 1,266,523 |