§ Mr. Frank Allaunasked the Secretary of State for Social Services whether any regulations of the EEC are contrary to the continued supply of the present three-wheel cars for the disabled.
§ Mr. Alfred MorrisThe requirements of EEC directives affecting motor vehicle construction are implemented in the United Kingdom by way of inclusion in regulations made by my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Transport. While the present three-wheeler meets all the current regulations which apply to it, the vehicle construction standards which the directives express are developing rapidly and the extent to which the three-wheeler can be developed to meet these changing standards is now very limited. This was the decisive new factor to which my right hon. Friend referred in his statement to the House 679W on 23rd July announcing an orderly phasing-out of the vehicle.—[Vol. 915, c. 2229–42.]