PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Emergency Services: Vehicles (6 December 2021)

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of reforming the Road Vehicle Lighting Regulations 1989 to allow volunteer emergency first responders use of green flashing lights.

Asked by:
Sarah Owen (Labour)

Green flashing lamps are currently the preserve of vehicles used by doctors registered with the General Medical Council and the Government has made no assessment of the effects of allowing an extension of their use to cover volunteer emergency first responders. The Government considers that the categories of vehicles allowed to use warning beacons should remain strictly limited to avoid diluting the safety benefits of these important signals.

Answered by:
Trudy Harrison (Conservative)
9 December 2021