Heavy Goods Vehicles

HC Deb 20 July 1998 vol 316 c375W

Mr. Nigel Jones

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions if he will list for the most recent five years for which records are available(a) the number of heavy goods vehicles tested and (b) the number of HGV test failures due to exhaust emissions. [51126]

Ms Glenda Jackson

The figures requested are as follows:

Year	Number tested	Number failed
1993–94	448,446	10,763
1994–95	447,660	7,163
1995–96	447,836	9,852
1996–97	452,916	11,776
1997–98	453,568	9,525