§ Mr. SimmondsTo ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many(a) private and (b) commercial liquefied petroleum gas fuelled vehicles there are in the UK. [179422]
§ Mr. JamiesonAccording to the Liquid Petroleum Gas Association (LPGA), there were 107,000 LPG powered vehicles on the road in the UK on 31 December 2003. Although figures on the breakdown between private and commercial vehicles are not recorded, some 25,000 of these vehicles were vans, and a straw poll of major suppliers carried out in 2003 indicated that of the 82,000 remaining vehicles there were an estimated 250 black taxis in London, and at least 8,000 operating as private taxi hire throughout the UK.