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760272

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date	13/09/2017
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Diesel Vehicles: Exhaust Emissions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether his Department plans to introduce any incentive schemes to encourage people to stop using the most polluting diesel cars.
tabling member constituency	Easington
tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
uin	105019
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/10/2017 answer text <p>The Government has announced an end to the sale of all new conventional petrol and diesel cars and vans by 2040. To deliver this the Government wants to encourage people to switch to cleaner forms of transport and has committed to consulting on measures to support individuals and businesses who are impacted by local air quality compliance measures later this autumn. It is welcome that number of the leading car manufacturers have announced schemes that offer substantial discounts off the purchase of a new vehicle for people who are trading in or scrapping an older, more polluting vehicle. We welcome the introduction of these schemes and are particularly supportive of the schemes that commit to scrapping the older vehicles, so that we can be sure they are helping to increase fleet turnover and improve air quality.</p><p> </p><p>We are also supporting the uptake of vehicles with zero tailpipe emissions. This includes investing nearly £100m in the UK’s electric vehicle charging infrastructure and funding the Plug In Car and Plug In Van Grant Schemes.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 13/10/2017 13:27:59 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

780631

registered interest
date	30/10/2017
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Diesel Vehicles: Exhaust Emissions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent estimate his Department has made of the number of diesel cars which have had their diesel particulate filters removed.
tabling member constituency	Wakefield
tabling member printed	Mary Creagh
uin	110317
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/11/2017 answer text <p>The Department has not estimated the total number of diesel cars which have had their diesel particulate filters (DPF) removed. However a check for the physical presence of a DPF at MOT was introduced in February 2014. Since this change was introduced, over 2,000 vehicles have failed their MOT for a missing or non-functioning DPF.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 02/11/2017 13:34:07 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	1579 label Biography information for Mary Creagh

780632

registered interest
date	30/10/2017
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Diesel Vehicles: Exhaust Emissions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will bring forward legislative proposals to prohibit the removal of diesel particulate filters from cars.
tabling member constituency	Wakefield
tabling member printed	Mary Creagh
uin	110319
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/11/2017 answer text <p>It is an offence under the Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations (Regulation 61a(3)) to use a vehicle which has been modified in such a way that it no longer complies with the air pollutant emissions standards it was designed to meet. Removal of a Diesel Particulate Filter (DPF) will almost invariably result in a contravention of the Regulations, making the vehicle illegal to use on the road.</p><p> </p><p>The Department’s officials are considering ways to develop these regulations further in order to ensure that anyone caught flouting the rules, or advertising services to circumvent the law, is brought before the courts.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 02/11/2017 13:37:21 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	1579 label Biography information for Mary Creagh