Question follow-through · 70076

Motor Vehicles: Northern Ireland

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of the application of General Product Safety Regulation requirements on the cost of new vehicles in Northern Ireland; and what steps he is

answeredNorthern Ireland Office

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Answering body
Northern Ireland Office
Tabled
22 Jul 2025
Target answer date
1 Sept 2025
Answer
5 Sept 2025 · 45 calendar days after tabling

Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.

Recorded timeline

  1. 22 Jul 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of the application of General Product Safety Regulation requirements on the cost of new vehicles in Northern Ireland; and what steps he is

  2. 1 Sept 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 5 Sept 2025

    Answer published

    The Government is committed to reducing barriers to trade between the UK and the EU, and to protecting the UK internal market. To that end, the Government has recently written to vehicle manufacturers to confirm that we intend to align requirements and en...

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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