Air Quality Debate
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(8 years, 11 months ago)
Commons Chamber Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield) (Lab/Co-op)
        
    
    
    
    
    
        
        
        
            Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield) (Lab/Co-op) 
        
    
        
    
        I have great sympathy for the Minister this morning because we are all responsible for the mess we are in, and I say that as chairman of my party’s Back-Bench DEFRA committee. Does the Minister realise that the public are far ahead of us on this issue? No one in their right mind would now buy a diesel car. The fact of the matter is that we need a scrappage scheme to get these filthy, belching diesel buses and cars out of our towns and cities. We are choking and poisoning children. That is why we need action now.