PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Motor Vehicles: Exhaust Emissions (1 October 2020)

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many vehicles have been stopped by police for producing a hazardous amount of smoke in the last 12 months; and what proportion of those vehicles were confiscated;

Asked by:
Matt Western (Labour)

The Home Office does not hold this information centrally.

The Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations 1986?lay down certain requirements that all vehicles have to meet strict emission standards and be constructed and maintained so as not to emit any avoidable?smoke. It also governs the amount of light that must pass through the windows of?a vehicle and therefore how clearly the windows can be seen through.

It is for the police to take enforcement action as they consider appropriate against those in breach of the Regulations.

Answered by:
Kit Malthouse (Conservative)
7 October 2020