EDM 1730: Road Traffic (No. 2)

That this House calls on the Government to withdraw the Road Vehicles (Type-Approval) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 because they build on the division of the UK into two separate Vehicle Type Approval Regimes with the effects that new cars cannot move freely for sale across the country and new cars sold under the Northern Ireland (NI) Vehicle Type Approval Regime will be subject to higher tax from 1 January 2026 than the same cars sold under the GB Vehicle Type Approval Regime; believes that the two different Vehicle Type Approval Regimes thus destroy the UK Internal Market for goods, as it relates to new cars, replacing it with a GB Internal Market for Goods and an EU/NI Internal Market for Goods, and thereby violate Section 46 of the Internal Market Act 2020, undermining the economic foundation of the UK; and notes that the NI Vehicle Type Approval Regime subjects new cars to additional regulatory burdens, making some £4,000 more expensive than the same cars in GB because the division of the UK into two separate Vehicle Type Approval Regimes not only disrespects the territorial integrity of the UK, but, contrary to Brexit, hands the definition of the NI regime to the EU, and then uses this to provide grounds for the Government, through its EU reset policy and these regulations, to begin to bring GB Vehicle Type Approval into line with that of NI, thereby undermining Brexit in GB as well as NI with significant cost implications for all UK consumers.