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445181

registered interest
date	15/01/2016
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Motor Vehicles: Exhaust Emissions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the (a) budget for and (b) expenditure on in-service emissions testing was for the (i) Vehicle Certification Agency and (ii) Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency in each of the last 10 years.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Riverside
tabling member printed	Mrs Louise Ellman
uin	22741
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/01/2016 answer text <p>The Vehicle Certification Agency (VCA) in-service emissions budget is in the table below:</p><br /><table><tbody><tr><td><p><br></p></td><td><p>Budget</p></td><td><p>Expenditure</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2006 / 2007</p></td><td><p>Not available</p></td><td><p>Not available</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2007 / 2008</p></td><td><p>Not available</p></td><td><p>£170k</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2008 / 2009</p></td><td><p>Not available</p></td><td><p>£205k</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009 / 2010</p></td><td><p>£200K</p></td><td><p>£200K</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010 / 2011</p></td><td><p>£200K</p></td><td><p>£200K</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011 /2012*</p></td><td><p>£0</p></td><td><p>£0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012 /2013</p></td><td><p>£40K</p></td><td><p>£40K</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013 /2014</p></td><td><p>£50K</p></td><td><p>£29.5K</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014 / 2015</p></td><td><p>£150K</p></td><td><p>£42.3K</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015 / 2016</p></td><td><p>£123.2K</p></td><td><p>**</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>* Following the work in 2010-2011, the focus of emissions testing changed to consider aftermarket alteration of vehicles, both light and heavy duty.</p><p>** Ongoing £96K anticipated.</p><br /><p>The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency does not hold a budget for in-service emissions testing and it does not have expenditure for in service emissions testing.</p><br /> answering member constituency Harrogate and Knaresborough answering member printed Andrew Jones question first answered 20/01/2016 15:44:45 answering member 3996 label Biography information for Andrew Jones
tabling member	484 label Biography information for Dame Louise Ellman

443767

registered interest
date	11/01/2016
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Motor Vehicles: Exhaust Emissions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what proportion of nitrogen dioxide pollution in the UK is caused by emissions from private cars.
tabling member constituency	Cambridge
tabling member printed	Daniel Zeichner
uin	21781
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/01/2016 answer text <p>We assess emissions in terms of nitrogen oxides (NO<sub>x</sub>) rather than nitrogen dioxide (NO<sub>2</sub>) because the proportion of NO<sub>2</sub> varies significantly across vehicle types. Passenger cars (including both petrol and diesel vehicles) contribute 29% of the total emissions of NO<sub>x</sub> in the UK. Passenger cars contribute 45% of NO<sub>X</sub> emissions from road transport.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 18/01/2016 14:40:06 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	4382 label Biography information for Daniel Zeichner

443325

registered interest
date	07/01/2016
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Motor Vehicles: Exhaust Emissions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what information he holds on how many Volkswagen vehicles have been re-tested for emissions since September 2015.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow South
tabling member printed	Stewart Malcolm McDonald
uin	21439
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/01/2016 answer text <p>The Department has retested three of the VW Group vehicles for which the UK provided type approval. These tests have confirmed that the extended test programme announced by the Secretary of State on 10 November can identify defeat device strategies. The testing of vehicles is underway and a report of the findings will be published in the spring.</p> answering member constituency Harrogate and Knaresborough answering member printed Andrew Jones question first answered 12/01/2016 14:32:58 answering member 3996 label Biography information for Andrew Jones
tabling member	4461 label Biography information for Stewart Malcolm McDonald

439753

registered interest
date	22/12/2015
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Motor Vehicles: Exhaust Emissions
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government why their representatives at the Technical Committee on Motor Vehicles voted on 28 October to weaken and delay the introduction of real driving emissions tests for air pollution emissions by diesel light duty vehicles.
tabling member printed	Baroness Randerson
uin	HL4806
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/01/2016 answer text <p>Government officials voted to secure the best possible outcome on the 28<sup>th</sup> October. This meant ensuring that real driving emissions tests will be introduced as early as possible and so make a significant contribution towards lowering emissions of nitrogen oxides from light duty diesel vehicles.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 07/01/2016 12:41:46 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	4230 label Biography information for Baroness Randerson

439762

registered interest
date	22/12/2015
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Motor Vehicles: Exhaust Emissions
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, in making their decision about how to vote on the implementation of real driving emissions tests at the 28 October meeting of the Technical Committee on Motor Vehicles, whether they took into account (1) estimates from DEFRA and Public Health England that pollution from mono-nitrogen oxides is responsible for 23,500 premature deaths in the UK per annum, (2) the 2010 estimates from the WHO suggesting that air-pollution related deaths cost the UK $83,069 per annum, (3) the failure of London, Leeds, and Birmingham to maintain nitrogen dioxide levels within legal limits over the past five years, and (4) the Supreme Court’s ruling in <i>R (on the application of ClientEarth) v Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs </i>[2015] UKSC 28 on 29 April that they should take immediate action to tackle air pollution.
tabling member printed	Baroness Falkner of Margravine
uin	HL4815
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/01/2016 answer text <p>The Government is committed to taking action on vehicle emissions testing that restores consumer confidence and delivers our wider air quality and climate objectives. We strongly support the current Real Driving Emissions agreement, which is expected to significantly reduce average real world NOx emissions from new diesel cars from 2017. It makes type approval requirements for diesel vehicles significantly more stringent by requiring manufacturers to ensure real-world emissions are maintained below 2.1 times the laboratory-testing limit in 2017 and at or below the laboratory-testing limit by 2020 (with a margin for measurement uncertainty). Issues relating to vehicle emissions are considered in the context of the UK Government’s plans for air quality. More detail is set out in the air quality plans published by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs on the 17<sup>th</sup> December.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 07/01/2016 12:42:17 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	3670 label Biography information for Baroness Falkner of Margravine

439763

registered interest
date	22/12/2015
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Motor Vehicles: Exhaust Emissions
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, in the light of the failure of London, Leeds, and Birmingham to maintain nitrogen dioxide levels within legal limits over the past five years, what assessment they have made of whether relaxing emissions standards for cars is compatible with public health and legal requirements to control urban pollution.
tabling member printed	Baroness Falkner of Margravine
uin	HL4816
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/01/2016 answer text <br /><p>The Government is committed to taking action on vehicle emissions testing that restores consumer confidence and delivers our wider air quality and climate objectives. We strongly support the current Real Driving Emissions agreement, which is expected to significantly reduce average real world NOx emissions from new diesel cars from 2017. It makes type approval requirements for diesel vehicles significantly more stringent by requiring manufacturers to ensure real-world emissions are maintained below 2.1 times the laboratory-testing limit in 2017 and at or below the laboratory-testing limit by 2020 (with a margin for measurement uncertainty). Issues relating to vehicle emissions are considered in the context of the UK Government’s plans for air quality. More detail is set out in the air quality plans published by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs on the 17<sup>th</sup> December.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 07/01/2016 12:38:29 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	3670 label Biography information for Baroness Falkner of Margravine

439764

registered interest
date	22/12/2015
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Motor Vehicles: Exhaust Emissions
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what response they made to the October 2014 findings by the International Council on Clean Transportation that some vehicles were producing emissions at seven times the legal limit.
tabling member printed	Baroness Falkner of Margravine
uin	HL4817
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/01/2016 answer text <p>The Government did not respond to the findings of the ICCT. This research confirmed the importance of ongoing work by Department for Transport officials on the development of a new European regulation to address issues around real world driving emissions.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 07/01/2016 12:37:35 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	3670 label Biography information for Baroness Falkner of Margravine

437986

registered interest
date	14/12/2015
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Motor Vehicles: Exhaust Emissions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the effect of the threat of legal action by the European Commission over UK levels of NOx on level of support required for vehicles that deliver zero real world tailpipe emissions.
tabling member constituency	Sunderland Central
tabling member printed	Julie Elliott
uin	19781
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/12/2015 answer text <p>Zero emission vehicles are a key component of any long term answer to urban air quality problems. The government will spend more than £600 million between 2015-16 and 2020-21 to support the uptake and manufacturing of ultra low emission vehicles in the UK which will keep the UK on track to meet our ambitious target that nearly all cars and vans will be zero emission by 2050.</p> answering member constituency Harrogate and Knaresborough answering member printed Andrew Jones question first answered 17/12/2015 14:05:28 answering member 3996 label Biography information for Andrew Jones
tabling member	4127 label Biography information for Julie Elliott

436908

registered interest
date	07/12/2015
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Motor Vehicles: Exhaust Emissions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps he is taking to ensure that consumers can have confidence in vehicle emissions data.
tabling member constituency	Fylde
tabling member printed	Mark Menzies
uin	902646
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/12/2015 answer text <p><strong>Consumers must be able to trust data provided to inform their purchasing decisions. That is why the government pushed in Europe for the recently agreed changes to the way emissions are measured. </strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong>I am pleased that real driving emissions will be measured from 2017 but, in the meantime, officials are retesting the emission performance of the most popular vehicles in Great Britain. We will publish a report of this work in spring 2016.</strong></p> answering member constituency Harrogate and Knaresborough answering member printed Andrew Jones question first answered 10/12/2015 15:17:15 answering member 3996 label Biography information for Andrew Jones
tabling member	3998 label Biography information for Mark Menzies

436910

registered interest
date	07/12/2015
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Motor Vehicles: Exhaust Emissions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what progress his Department has made on the motor vehicle emissions retesting programme.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Paul Flynn
uin	902647
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/12/2015 answer text <br /><p>The Secretary of State for Transport’s written statement of 10 Nov 2015 advised that the programme was underway and that he would keep the House informed of progress.</p><br /><p>The Vehicle Certification Agency has tested 7 independently sourced vehicles at a commercial laboratory. Two more laboratories will increase the volume of tests in the New Year. We intend to test approximately 40 vehicles and a report will be published next spring.</p> answering member constituency Derbyshire Dales answering member printed Mr Patrick McLoughlin question first answered 10/12/2015 16:32:15 answering member 333 label Biography information for Lord McLoughlin
tabling member	545 label Biography information for Paul Flynn