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Diesel Vehicles: Exhaust Emissions

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will take steps to ensure the recall of diesel vehicles found to use defeat devices.

answeredDepartment for Transport

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Answering body
Department for Transport
Tabled
25 Nov 2025
Target answer date
27 Nov 2025
Answer
1 Dec 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 25 Nov 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will take steps to ensure the recall of diesel vehicles found to use defeat devices.

  2. 27 Nov 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 1 Dec 2025

    Answer published

    The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency’s Market Surveillance Unit (MSU) is investigating cases of possible non-compliant diesel emissions in cars and vans. The investigations aim to ensure any non-compliance found is fixed as soon as reasonably possible,...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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Possible follow-up questions

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Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Motor Vehicles: Exhaust Emissions

1 Dec 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment her Department has made of the contribution of illegally high vehicle emissions arising from the use of defeat devices to overall UK nitrogen oxide and greenhouse gas emissions levels.

Strong linkSame MP, department and exact heading

Diesel Vehicles: Exhaust Emissions

1 Dec 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate her Department has made of the potential impact of non-compliant diesel vehicles on the UK’s ability to meet its legally binding carbon budgets and net-zero targets.

Strong linkSame MP, department and exact heading

Diesel Vehicles: Exhaust Emissions

1 Dec 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that emissions from non-compliant diesel vehicles are fully accounted for in the modelling and monitoring underpinning the UK’s Net Zero Strategy.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Motor Vehicles: Exhaust Emissions

1 Dec 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment her Department has made of the potential health and social impacts of illegal vehicle emissions on communities living in areas that already breach air-quality standards; and how those findings i

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Motor Vehicles: Exhaust Emissions

1 Dec 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department is taking steps with the Department for Transport to improve emissions monitoring and enforcement mechanisms to prevent future breaches of vehicle emissions law.