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To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many people leased (a) a car and (b) a powered wheelchair through Motability in each of the last five years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many people leased (a) a car and (b) a powered wheelchair through Motability in each of the last five years.
Asked by
Andrew Smith
(Labour)
Answered by
Anne McGuire
(Labour)
Answering body
Department for Work and Pensions
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Tabled on
27 February 2007
For answer on
6 March 2007
Answered on
6 March 2007
Motability is a national charity that assists disabled people with their mobility needs. The Motability scheme enables disabled people to obtain a car, powered wheelchair or scooter by using their disability living allowance mobility component or their war pensioners' mobility supplement as a funding stream.Motability provides cars via both contract hire and hire purchase. Route2mobility provide scooters and powered wheelchairs via contract hire and hire purchase.The following table gives details of leased and hire purchased cars and powered wheelchairs over the last five years.
| Contract hire car | New car hire purchase | Used car hire purchase | Total cars (contract hire and hire purchase) | Wheelchairs and scooters (contract hire and hire purchase) | |
| 2005-06 | 396,633 | 6,082 | 13,650 | 416,365 | 6,881 |
| 2004-05 | 371,058 | 7,193 | 11,300 | 395,789 | 6,238 |
| 2003-04 | 366,959 | 7,396 | 7,485 | 388,187 | 6,347 |
| 2002-03 | 378,414 | 6,526 | 4,185 | 395,257 | 6,132 |
| 2001-02 | 378,447 | 7,002 | 4,172 | 395,546 | 5,925 |
Subjects
Motability scheme
Date
6 March 2007
Reference
457 c1869-70W;457 c1855-6W; 124668
House
House of Commons
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what the total cost to the Government is of the Motability scheme.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what the total cost to the Government is of the Motability scheme.
Asked by
Lord Wills
(Labour)
Answered by
Anne McGuire
(Labour)
Answering body
Department for Work and Pensions
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Tabled on
6 December 2006
For answer on
11 December 2006
Answered on
8 January 2007
The Motability scheme provides a facility for recipients of the higher rate mobility component of disability living allowance or war pensioners’ mobility supplement to lease or purchase a car, powered wheelchair or scooter using their allowance. The scheme has some 450,000 customers at present.The transfer of disability living allowance for those customers who choose to use the Motability scheme is executed by a unit within the Disability and Carers Service at a cost of £3.7 million per year. Administration funding of £2.8 million is also provided to cover Motability’s oversight role in respect of the scheme’s operations which are undertaken by service providers under contract to Motability, the provision of technical advice on adaptations and converted vehicles, and the administration of safety advice and equipment testing.Motability also administers the Specialised Vehicles Fund on behalf of the Department, providing grants for heavily adapted vehicles for disabled people. Government funding for the Specialised Vehicles Fund for the current financial year is £9.1 million (Annually Managed Expenditure).In addition, the lease of cars under the Motability Scheme, and the end of lease sale of Motability vehicles are value added tax (VAT) zero-rated. Motability vehicles are also exempt from insurance premium tax. These reliefs are worth around £240 million and £8 million respectively per year. VAT zero-rating also applies to the supply of certain adapted motor vehicles for the use of disabled wheelchair users.
Subjects
Costs; Motability scheme
Date
8 January 2007
Reference
108219; 455 c180W;455 c178-9W
House
House of Commons