Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps the Government is taking to tackle noise pollution from vehicles.

The police and local authorities have powers to enforce against vehicles that have been modified, or are driven in a way, to create excessive noise. However, barriers exist to effective enforcement. Following encouraging initial research, the Department is conducting further trials of the latest “noise camera” technology to understand if it can be used to automatically detect excessively noisy vehicles.

As the research develops, the Government will keep under review the way “noise cameras” can be used to tackle noise pollution from vehicles.