Large Goods Vehicles: Taxation
(asked on 7th March 2016) - View Source
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the HGV road user levy.
This question was answered on 10th March 2016
The Government published an assessment of the effectiveness of the HGV levy in a written statement on 15 June 2015. The levy was introduced, on time, in April 2014. It raised £192.5m in its first year, with £46.5m of that coming from foreign hauliers. Compliance in Great Britain is high at around 95%, and over 3,000 fixed penalties were issued in the first year.