Question follow-through · 50429
Shipping: Waste Disposal
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will ban the discharge of wash water from open-loop exhaust gas cleaning systems within UK territorial waters.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Transport
- Tabled
- 6 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 8 May 2025
- Answer
- 12 May 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Taxation (Energy and Vehicles) Bill Committee: New Clause 5 · 1 Jul 2026
- Taxation (Energy and Vehicles) Bill Committee: New Clause 4 · 1 Jul 2026
- Taxation (Energy and Vehicles) Bill Committee: New Clause 2 · 1 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
6 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will ban the discharge of wash water from open-loop exhaust gas cleaning systems within UK territorial waters.
8 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
12 May 2025
Answer published
The UK is committed to reducing the impact of shipping on the environment. In April, we cosponsored a proposal at the International Maritime Organization (IMO) to create a new Emission Control Area. This will reduce pollutants across all UK waters. The us...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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