This initiative from the British Vehicle Rental and Leasing Association is most welcome. Many forward thinking businesses and consumers are already benefiting from whole life cost savings that can be made from choosing plug-in vehicles. The Government already offers the Plug-in Car Grant to help with the cost of purchasing electric vehicles and has pledged that this will continue in some form until at least 2020. Consumer incentives in some form will continue to play a role beyond 2020. The Government has established a favourable tax regime to incentivise the purchase of the cleanest vehicles, in particular zero emission vehicles.

The Government recognises that the availability of adequate charging infrastructure is vital and offers a variety of grant funding schemes to support recharging infrastructure in motorists’ homes, workplaces and on residential streets. The Charging Infrastructure Investment Fund (CIIF), funded with £200m of new Government investment and matched by £200m from private investors, will accelerate the roll-out of charging infrastructure and enable thousands more publicly accessible chargepoints. The full range of steps that the Government is taking was set out in the Road To Zero Strategy in July 2018.

Infrastructure work is necessary to enable the port to resume Ro-Ro services. Thanet Council is in discussion with both the Department and Seaborne Freight to finalise the funding arrangements for the infrastructure works at the port, and vital dredging work has already started.

In the Government's view, the contracts do not breach the concession agreement with Eurotunnel. Obligations under competition and state aid law were taken into account as part of the contractual process.

The volume of vehicles clamped or impounded for non-payment of road tax for each financial year from 2011 is detailed in the table below.

*please note: 2018-19 figures are up to and including August 2018.

** the paper tax disc was abolished in October 2014.

The Government believes that the use of technology is a more effective way of preventing and detecting the unlawful use of untaxed, uninsured and untested vehicles. The police has access to the information held by the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency, the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency and the insurance industry to allow them to check compliance at the roadside.

Therefore, there are no plans to introduce a windscreen disc to indicate the expiry date of MoT, insurance and vehicle excise duty.

The Government has no plans to re-introduce the tax disc.

The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) and other enforcement agencies use the DVLA’s electronic vehicle information to confirm that vehicle excise duty has been paid.

More than 98 per cent of vehicles on the road are currently taxed and as the annual report shows the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) continues to collect approximately £6 billion in tax each year. This shows the overwhelming majority of motorists tax their vehicles on time.

The DVLA has a comprehensive package of measures to tackle vehicle excise duty evasion. These are kept under constant review and range from reminder letters, penalties and court prosecutions through to the use of Automatic Number Plate Recognition cameras, wheel clamping and the removal of unlicensed vehicles.