Motor Vehicles: Excise Duties

Mr. Chaytor
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport how many vehicles were exempt from vehicle excise duty as a result of having been first registered prior to January 1973 in each of the last five years.

Paul Clark
The following table provides the number of licensed vehicles that were exempt from vehicle excise duty on the 31 December in each of the last five years as a result of having been manufactured prior to January 1973. These figures are for Great Britain.

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|    |Number of vehicles|
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|2004|322,842           |
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|2005|318,300           |
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|2006|307,406           |
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|2007|303,943           |
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|2008|302,891           |
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Data for 2009 will be published at the end of April 2010.