Question follow-through · 2045
Motor Vehicles: Exhaust Systems
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of using acoustic cameras to help tackle illegal car exhaust systems.
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- Answering body
- Department for Transport
- Tabled
- 29 Jul 2024
- Target answer date
- 2 Sept 2024
- Answer
- 2 Sept 2024 · 35 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
29 Jul 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of using acoustic cameras to help tackle illegal car exhaust systems.
2 Sept 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
2 Sept 2024
Answer published
The Department conducted roadside trials of noise camera technology between October 2022 and February 2023. Reports of these trials, including detailed assessment of the technology’s performance and potential merits, were published on 17 March 2024.
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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