Vehicle Technology and Aviation Bill (Third sitting) - 16th March 2017

Here are the climate-related sections of speeches by MPs during the Commons debate Vehicle Technology and Aviation Bill (Third sitting).

Full text: https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2017-03-16/debates/D552D022-5780-4AF0-989C-4756D53419F7/VehicleTechnologyandAviationBillThirdsitting

11:34 Andy McDonald (Labour)

The economic dividends of the transformation in our personal transport arrangements, in terms of air quality and climate change, could be immense, as could the industrial and technological advances. I am thinking particularly of the potential road safety benefits, the impact on our national health service and the health dividends, and the reduction in the number of people killed or seriously injured on our roads.

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12:35 Rob Marris

More generally, does the Minister envisage a completely separate list, or will the list that is created under the powers in clause 1 simply be a subset of the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency database, just as the DVLA database currently has a subset dealing with hybrid vehicles and vehicles that, for London congestion charging purposes, have carbon dioxide emissions of 75 grams or less per kilometre? It is an administrative question.

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