Diesel Vehicles: Exhaust Emissions

(asked on 24th May 2016) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what information his Department holds on how many diesel vehicles there were in the UK by (a) Euro 1, (b) Euro 2, (c) Euro 3, (d) Euro 4, (e) Euro 5, (f) Euro 6 emission categories on the most recent date for which figures are available; and how many vehicles there were on that date that did not conform to a Euro emissions standard.


Answered by
Andrew Jones Portrait
Andrew Jones
This question was answered on 6th June 2016

The Driver and Vehicle Licensing database does not include the Euro Emission Standard. However, it does contain the year of first registration from which the number can be estimated.

The estimated number of diesel cars licensed at the end of December 2015 that were first registered during the period of which each of the Euro standards were in place are as follows:-

Pre Euro 1

11,083

Euro 1

47,336

Euro 2

216,309

Euro 3

2,191,698

Euro 4

3,887,142

Euro 5

4,802,451

Euro 6

474,970

There were 296,788 cars that were imports or older cars for which the date of first registration is unknown.

Reticulating Splines