This paper is to study the control scheme for neutral-point-clamping three-level (NPC-3L) inverters fed dual three-phase permanent magnet synchronous motor (PMSM) drives based on vector space decomposition (VSD). The key is to propose a novel VSD based space vector modulation (SVM) strategy for the dual-three phase drives. The torque of the PMSM drive is controlled by voltage components on α-β plane while the current harmonics are suppressed by voltage components on x - y plane of the VSD-SVM. The upper and lower capacitor voltages are balanced well in DC link. Based on the proposed VSD-SVM strategy, a simple control scheme is presented for the dual three-phase PMSM drives. The principles of the proposed modulation strategy and control scheme are described in detail. The experiments are carried on a laboratory prototype to verify that the proposed VSD-SVM based control scheme can provide both good steady-state and dynamic performance for the dual three-phase PMSM drives.