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Motor Vehicles: Excise Duties

Volume 481: debated on Wednesday 22 October 2008

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Sarah Teather

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport pursuant to the answer of 13 October 2008, Official Report, column 894W, on motor vehicles: taxation, how many people are forecast to renew their vehicle tax (a) online and (b) at their local post office in each of the next five years. (227913)

Jim Fitzpatrick

The current forecast based on existing trends of the number of people who will pay their vehicle excise licence (tax discs) via the Post Office® or the Electronic Vehicle Licensing (EVL) facility are shown in the following table:

Number

2009-10

2010-11

2011-12

2012-13

2013-14

EVL

17,415,468

17,447,553

17,479,639

17,511,723

17,543,809

PostOffice

24,375,011

24,563,761

24,700,268

24,868,406

25,040,472