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Vehicles: Carbon Emissions
Lord Dykes asked Her Majesty's Government:
Whether they have made an assessment of the likely impact which a rise in sales of diesel and electric-petrol hybrid vehicles would have on levels of carbon emissions and pollution in the United Kingdom. [HL1534]
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Lord Bassam of Brighton: The impact on emissions of carbon dioxide and local air pollutants of a rise in diesel and hybrid vehicle sales would depend on the vehicle models purchased and assumptions about the nature of vehicles that would have been purchased instead. The Government have not carried out an assessment of this kind.
However, in general terms, a hybrid vehicle emits lower levels of carbon dioxide and local air pollutants (eg, oxides of nitrogen, particulates) than an equivalent non-hybrid vehicle. A diesel vehicle emits lower levels of carbon dioxide but higher levels of local air pollutants than an equivalent petrol vehicle.
Vehicles: End-of-Life
Earl Attlee asked Her Majesty's Government:
How an “end-of-life vehicle” is defined in United Kingdom legislation or law derived from the European Union end-of-life vehicle directive. [HL1639]
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department of Trade and Industry (Lord Truscott): The End-of-Life Vehicles Regulations 2003 (SI 2003/2635) and the End-of-Life Vehicles (Producer Responsibility) Regulations 2005 (SI 2005/263) both take their definitions from the end-of-life vehicles directive (2000/53/EC), which defines an end-of-life vehicle as a vehicle which is waste within the meaning of Article 1(a) of the waste directive (75/442/EEC), where,
- “‘waste’ shall mean any substance or object ... which the holder discards or intends or is required to discard”.
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