Question follow-through · 99655
Shipping: Exhaust Emissions
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what discussions his Department has had with the International Maritime Organisation on the designation of additional Emission Control Areas adjacent to the west coast of the United Kingdom.
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- Answering body
- Department for Transport
- Tabled
- 12 Dec 2025
- Target answer date
- 16 Dec 2025
- Answer
- 17 Dec 2025 · 5 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
12 Dec 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what discussions his Department has had with the International Maritime Organisation on the designation of additional Emission Control Areas adjacent to the west coast of the United Kingdom.
16 Dec 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
17 Dec 2025
Answer published
We, alongside EU partners, are leading work at the International Maritime Organization (IMO) to bring in a new Emission Control Area (ECA) in the North-East Atlantic Ocean. This is a key measure, which covers over 5 million km2 of ocean, to reduce air pol...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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