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Motor Vehicles: Exhaust Emissions

Department for Transport written question – answered at on 12 June 2023.

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Photo of Charlotte Nichols Charlotte Nichols Labour, Warrington North

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he plan to impose financial penalties on vehicle manufacturers who used defeat devices.

Photo of Richard Holden Richard Holden Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)

Under powers introduced under this government, the Secretary of State has civil powers to fine up to £50,000 in respect of defeat device usage per offence. If the offence is prosecuted as a criminal offence, in particularly serious cases in England that can increase to an unlimited fine.

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  • (Citation: HC Deb, 12 June 2023, cW)

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