New Clause 9 - Revenue
Vehicles (Crime) Bill
5:15 pm
Mr John Bercow (Buckingham, Conservative)
I appreciate the assent of the hon. Member for Colchester to that proposition. He may have local experience that he will want to share with the Committee.
Cars often fetch as little as £3 as scrap, yet it often costs more than that to take them away. That imbalance is a disincentive to good conduct and an incentive to bad conduct. Scrap metal prices are unlikely to rise, given the effects of the end-of-life vehicles directive on increasing the amount of scrap metal.