§ Mr. HarveyTo ask the Secretary of State for Transport what plans he has to promote more widespread usage of catalytic converters on motor vehicles.
§ Mr. KeyNone. Regulations are already in place which effectively require all new petrol-engined passenger cars to be fitted with catalytic converters, and which extend the requirement to new car-derived vans from 1 October 1994. An estimated 2.5 million cars are already fitted with the devices and, as the decade advances, there will be a natural progression towards an almost total catalyst-equipped fleet by the year 2003.
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