Volkswagen: Emissions

Lord Forsyth of Drumlean Excerpts

Tuesday 19th January 2016 Lords Chamber

[Viscount Younger of Leckie]

I do not know about that, but as I said, that the Government have been pressing Volkswagen very hard and we need to establish what the actual losses are. There is no question but that if UK owners have legitimate claims for compensation for losses, they should be compensated.

[Lord Forsyth of Drumlean (Con)]

Can my noble friend explain why Volkswagen has indicated that it will pay compensation to owners of Volkswagens in the United States but not in Britain?

[Viscount Younger of Leckie]

I am very aware of that point. We are trying to establish why the US has done this, but it does have a different emissions regime, and there are fewer Volkswagen cars in the US. We are trying to get to the bottom of that.