Question follow-through · 1843
Motor Vehicles: Testing
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will require the publication of disaggregated MOT failure statistics identifying major defects relating specifically to exhaust noise separately from other categories.
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- Answering body
- Department for Transport
- Tabled
- 15 May 2026
- Target answer date
- 19 May 2026
- Answer
- 21 May 2026 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
15 May 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will require the publication of disaggregated MOT failure statistics identifying major defects relating specifically to exhaust noise separately from other categories.
19 May 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
21 May 2026
Answer published
The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) regularly publishes data on MOT failures by vehicle type and failure category. Vehicle noise is included within ‘noise, emissions and leaks’. The full MOT dataset is also available on GOV.UK in anonymised f...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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