Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Lloyd Russell-Moyle and Jesse Norman

Thursday 19th October 2017 Commons Chamber

[Afzal Khan (Manchester, Gorton) (Lab)]

15. What steps he is taking to reduce harmful emissions from road transport.

[The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Transport (Jesse Norman)]

The Government’s plan for tackling nitrogen dioxide concentrations, which was published in July, sets out a number of steps backed with £3 billion of investment in air quality and cleaner transport. These include the tough new real-world emissions tests for new models of diesel and petrol cars.

[Lloyd Russell-Moyle]

What progress is being made on setting up low-emission zones in various parts of the country? How are the Government ensuring that there is a workable national framework for those zones?

[Jesse Norman]

As the hon. Gentleman knows, we have published the clean air plan and we are working very closely with local authorities regarding clean air zones. There is also a wider duty on local authorities that are not specifically part of the zones themselves to bear air quality in mind, and we also support them through the Department.