Whilst not from or to do with the Motability website, this is new of a coalition representing us, Motability users, and pointing out the error of their ways. https://www.transportforall.org.uk/blog/2026/03/11/70-organisations-urge-sir-stephen-timms-to-hear-evidence-on-motability-changes/ 70 organisations including the Trussel Trust and Transport for All have requested the opportunity to present evidence collated from genuine Motability customers who have put forward how these proposed changes will affect their lives. This is worth following.
Interesting, but I don’t think that they make anywhere near as strong a case as they could, and the ‘evidence’ that they do provide is very weak.
As the impact of the government changes is mostly unknown as yet, their main criticism seems to be reduced choice and rising costs, both of which have been happening for years and have been nothing to do with the recently announced (and yet to be implemented) changes.
Vehicle choice has dropped progressively from 5,500 vehicles to under 1.000 even before the government got involved. Added to that, if you remove the Chinese and other brands that didn’t even exist back then, choice of traditional brands has been decimated.
Then, of course, there’s the shift in focus of Motability to EVs, which isn’t even mentioned. There will be hundreds of thousands of Motability customers for whom an EV would be totally impractical, mostly due to the inability to be able to charge at home. That, of course, reduces choice of appropriate vehicles even more.
APs have been on an upward trajectory for several years – again not mentioned, yet the adverse impact of these massive AP rises has been way more than the imposition of 20% VAT on APs or Insurance Premium Tax will be!
All in all, I think they’ve missed the point and missed an opportunity.