Submitted by Barry Morgan on Tuesday 2nd December 2025
Published on Friday 16th January 2026
Current status: Open
Open until: Thursday 16th July 2026
Current Signatures: 34
(count is updated approximately hourly)
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Duty ~ excise duty ~ Fairness ~ Fairs ~ Generate ~ Incidents ~ Opportunity ~ Regime ~ Regular ~ ROADS ~ Safety ~ Stewardship ~ testing ~ Thousands ~ Touring ~ Transport ~ Vehicle ~ Vehicle Excise Duty
Introduce a Vehicle Excise Duty (VED) and MOT requirement for touring caravans
Touring caravans are currently exempt from MOT testing and pay no Vehicle Excise Duty, despite:
Reports of being involved in thousands of road incidents each year
Causing an increase in vehicle CO₂ emissions
Making use of UK road infrastructure without contributing equivalent revenue.
A VED + MOT regime for touring caravans offers a high-value, low-disruption opportunity to enhance safety, reduce emissions, and generate significant public revenue (c.£95m per annum). Regular inspections will reduce mechanical failures - one of the top causes of caravan incidents.
With a fair and pragmatic rollout, this policy would modernise caravan regulation while supporting broader government goals in transport safety and environmental stewardship.
If you want to sign this petition (as opposed to merely discuss it), you need to do that on the government's e-Petitions website.
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