HC Deb 01 March 1976 vol 906 cc484-5W
Mr. Skeet

asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will list the several taxes affecting motor vehicles, namely, road tax, excise duty and VAT on petrol and VAT on motor vehicles and cycles, giving their total yield, and compare it with the total expenditure on roads in the last year for which figures are available.

Mr. Denzil Davies

The yield from vehicle excise duty, excise duty on road fuel, VAT on road fuel and motor vehicles and car tax amounted to £2,160 million in 1974–75. In that year total public expenditure on the roads in the United Kingdom amounted to about £1,270 million.