Transport Emissions: Urban Areas Debate
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Jonathan Edwards
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Transport Emissions: Urban Areas
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Michael Gove
We have been working with the domestic heating industry to ensure that higher standards can prevail in future. We want to ensure that all stoves sold in future meet those new higher standards.
Jonathan Edwards (Carmarthen East and Dinefwr) (PC)
I commend to the Secretary of State the clean air Bill proposed by my colleague Simon Thomas in the National Assembly for Wales. In the spirit of the decentralised approach that he proposes, what consideration have the British Government given to devolving vehicle excise duty and fuel taxes to Wales, so that the Welsh Government can have a revenue stream to implement alternative transport solutions?