Asked by: Jim Shannon (Democratic Unionist Party - Strangford)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate he has made of the number of (a) new and (b) used electric vehicles bought in the last 12 months.
Answered by Anthony Browne - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
In the 12 months from October 2022 to September 2023 inclusive (the latest period for which published data are available), there were 357,021 new registrations of battery electric vehicles in the UK. The total number of new registrations for all fuel types in this same period was 2,413,737.
These data are published in table VEH1153 available here, and a full 2023 update will be available later this month:
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/vehicle-licensing-statistics-data-tables
The department does not hold data on the number of used vehicle sales.
Mentions:
1: Lord Lilley (Con - Life peer) Supposing that a manufacturer finds, in the course of a year, that his sales of electric vehicles fall - Speech Link
2: None Predicted sales of electric vehicles were recently revised downwards as a result of the Government’s - Speech Link
3: None Electric vehicles do not do anything to reduce this issue. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Bill Esterson (Lab - Sefton Central) with the serious concern that drivers will not buy their electric vehicles because the Prime Minister - Speech Link
2: Bill Esterson (Lab - Sefton Central) That is why we will stick to the 2030 end-point for new sales of petrol and diesel.Used-car sales account - Speech Link
3: Anthony Browne (Con - South Cambridgeshire) In the UK, 16.1% of our market is electric vehicles. - Speech Link
Asked by: Bill Wiggin (Conservative - North Herefordshire)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 30 January 2024 to Question 11316 on Motorcycles: Carbon Emissions, if he will make an assessment of the impact of the reduction in the plug-in motorcycle grant on the number of sales of electric-powered light vehicles.
Answered by Anthony Browne - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
The Plug-in Motorcycle Grant (PIMG) remains open to applications for L1e (mopeds) and L3e (motorcycles) category vehicles until at least the end of the current financial year.
Government grants have been available for over a decade to help reduce the up-front purchase price of electric vehicles. Since the introduction of the PIMG in 2011, the market shares for L1e category vehicles and L3e category vehicles have increased to 40.6% and 3.3% respectively. All the Plug-in Vehicle Grants remain under continual review by the Government to ensure they deliver the greatest value for money to the taxpayer.
Asked by: Simpson, Graham (Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party - Central Scotland)
Question
To ask the Scottish Government how it plans to support the market for electric (a) car and (b) van sales to move more quickly than is set out in the UK-wide zero-emission vehicle mandate, in light of the Climate Change Committee’s recommendation in its 2023 Report to Parliament.
Answered by Hyslop, Fiona - Minister for Transport
Since 2011 the Scottish Government has supported individuals and businesses across Scotland with over £220 million of interest free loans to support the transition to zero emission vehicles.
In addition, the Plugged-in Communities grant fund has provided community transport organisations with grants worth almost £4 million to procure zero emission vehicles.
The Scottish Government is currently considering the future of its EV incentive schemes, with no final decision yet made.
The Scottish Government has commissioned a study which will look at EV adoption to-date and will model future demand across a number of scenarios. This study will help to inform the ongoing development of Transport Scotland’s strategic framework for the adoption of electric vehicles (EV) and the development of charging infrastructure across Scotland.
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