49220
2015-16
1426
Air Quality And Diesel Emissions In Urban Centres
Geraint Davies
2016-04-27
That this House notes that 40,000 people die prematurely each year in the UK from diesel pollution; further notes that diesel cars produce 22 times more carcinogenic particulates than petrol and four times more nitrous oxides, that these emissions cause lung and blood vessel damage, heart disease, stroke and diabetes, and that these medical effects have been known for over 15 years; further notes that air pollution costs the economy £20 billion each year, that 50 per cent of new cars in the UK are now diesel, up from less than five per cent in 1992, and that laboratory emissions testing has not reflected on-road driving conditions, while some vehicles have had test-cheating devices installed; and calls on the Government to improve urban air quality by ensuring vehicle emissions-testing reflects on-road driving conditions, empowering local authorities to extend low emissions zones and pedestrianisation, restricting older more heavily polluting diesel vehicles from polluted urban areas, encouraging electric tram systems and LPG, hydrogen-powered or electric buses and taxis, introducing vehicle scrappage and LPG conversion schemes for older more polluting diesel vehicles and using fiscal measures to encourage a switch towards sustainable public and private transport.
Pollution
Roads
Geraint Davies
2016-04-27
Proposed
Swansea West
Labour
Mims Davies
2016-04-27
Seconded
Eastleigh
Conservative
John McNally
2016-04-27
Seconded
Falkirk
Scottish National Party
Liz Saville Roberts
2016-04-27
Seconded
Dwyfor Meirionnydd
Plaid Cymru
Gerald Kaufman
2016-04-27
Seconded
Manchester, Gorton
Labour
Helen Goodman
2016-04-27
Seconded
Bishop Auckland
Labour
Mark Durkan
2016-04-27
Signed
Foyle
Social Democratic and Labour Party
Margaret Ritchie
2016-04-27
Signed
South Down
Social Democratic and Labour Party
Hannah Bardell
2016-04-27
Signed
Livingston
Scottish National Party
Tom Brake
2016-04-27
Signed
Carshalton and Wallington
Liberal Democrat
Mary Creagh
2016-04-27
Signed
Wakefield
Labour
Caroline Lucas
2016-04-27
Signed
Brighton, Pavilion
Green
Ruth Cadbury
2016-04-27
Signed
Brentford and Isleworth
Labour
Helen Hayes
2016-04-27
Signed
Dulwich and West Norwood
Labour
Chris Evans
2016-04-27
Signed
Islwyn
Labour
David Crausby
2016-04-27
Signed
Bolton North East
Labour
Alan Meale
2016-04-27
Signed
Mansfield
Labour
Calum Kerr
2016-04-27
Signed
Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk
Scottish National Party
David Amess
2016-04-28
Signed
Southend West
Conservative
Roger Mullin
2016-04-28
Signed
Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath
Scottish National Party
Chris Stephens
2016-04-28
Signed
Glasgow South West
Scottish National Party
Jim Shannon
2016-04-28
Signed
Strangford
DUP
Kelvin Hopkins
2016-04-28
Signed
Luton North
Labour
Stephen Kinnock
2016-04-28
Signed
Aberavon
Labour
Paul Monaghan
2016-05-03
Signed
Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross
Scottish National Party
Angus MacNeil
2016-05-04
Signed
Na h-Eileanan an Iar
Scottish National Party
Ronnie Campbell
2016-05-04
Signed
Blyth Valley
Labour
Owen Thompson
2016-05-04
Signed
Midlothian
Scottish National Party
Jim Cunningham
2016-05-04
Signed
Coventry South
Labour
Martyn Day
2016-05-09
Signed
Linlithgow and East Falkirk
Scottish National Party
Hywel Williams
2016-05-09
Signed
Arfon
Plaid Cymru
Roger Godsiff
2016-05-09
Signed
Birmingham, Hall Green
Labour
Alan Brown
2016-05-09
Signed
Kilmarnock and Loudoun
Scottish National Party
John Pugh
2016-05-10
Signed
Southport
Liberal Democrat
Stewart McDonald
2016-05-10
Signed
Glasgow South
Scottish National Party