Large Goods Vehicles: Foreign Companies

(asked on 14th March 2016) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many foreign-registered HGVs entered the UK in 2015.


Answered by
Andrew Jones Portrait
Andrew Jones
This question was answered on 22nd March 2016

We estimate that in 2015, 2.0 million foreign registered powered goods vehicles entered Great Britain from mainland Europe.

Powered goods vehicles include some vehicles weighing under 3.5 tonnes, which would not be classed as heavy goods vehicles.

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