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date	02/06/2023
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, whether he plan to impose financial penalties on vehicle manufacturers who used defeat devices.
tabling member constituency	Warrington North
tabling member printed	Charlotte Nichols
uin	187252
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/06/2023 answer text <p>Under powers introduced under this government, the Secretary of State has civil powers to fine up to £50,000 in respect of defeat device usage per offence. If the offence is prosecuted as a criminal offence, in particularly serious cases in England that can increase to an unlimited fine.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency North West Durham answering member printed Mr Richard Holden question first answered 12/06/2023 10:55:37 answering member 4813 label Biography information for Mr Richard Holden
tabling member	4799 label Biography information for Charlotte Nichols

1610542

registered interest
date	14/04/2023
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, whether his Department has taken recent steps to prevent vehicle manufacturers from selling vehicles that contain emissions defeat devices.
tabling member constituency	Richmond Park
tabling member printed	Sarah Olney
uin	180675
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/04/2023 answer text <p>The Government is committed to reducing air pollution from all forms of transport, which has significantly reduced since 2010. The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency’s (DVSA’s) Market Surveillance Unit conducts an annual emissions-testing programme to test vehicle emissions in the real world. Where testing identifies non-compliant emissions the DVSA works with the manufacturer to implement improvement plans.</p><p> </p><p>In 2018, the Government strengthened restrictions against the use of illegal emissions technology by passing legislation making it an offence for manufacturers to place motor vehicles on the market which contain prohibited defeat systems. The Government will also bring forward legislation to enable it to require vehicles to be recalled on environmental grounds, as well as exploring other means of strengthening enforcement.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North West Durham answering member printed Mr Richard Holden question first answered 18/04/2023 14:15:18 answering member 4813 label Biography information for Mr Richard Holden
tabling member	4591 label Biography information for Sarah Olney

1607701

registered interest
date	27/03/2023
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, with reference to the report by the International Council on Clean Transportation entitled Reassessment of excess NOx from diesel cars in Europe following the Court Justice of the European Union rulings, published on 22 March 2023, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of that report's findings on the prevalence of illegal technology that tampers with emission controls.
tabling member constituency	Exeter
tabling member printed	Mr Ben Bradshaw
uin	174186
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/04/2023 answer text <p>The Government is committed to reducing air pollution from all forms of transport, which has significantly reduced since 2010. Emissions of nitrogen oxides have fallen by 45% and emissions of PM2.5 by 10% since that date.</p><p>The DVSA Market Surveillance Unit will continue to conduct a vehicle-emissions testing programme to monitor vehicle emissions performance and address non-compliance where identified.</p><p>Since 2015, there have been 134 manufacturer recalls or non-code actions involving a total of 1.85 million vehicles to amend or upgrade emissions systems. Not all action will have been to address non-compliance.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman grouped question UIN 174528 question first answered 04/04/2023 10:48:20 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	230 label Biography information for Mr Ben Bradshaw