A Bill to make provision for the display of climate change information in motor vehicle advertising and registration documents
The Bill would secure the provision of information about motor vehicle emissions and the link between such emissions and climate change on any printed advertisement about a given vehicle and in any audio-visual advertisement about the same. It would also set minimum standards for the amount of space or time to be devoted to this issue in each advertisement and make it an offence to breach those provisions.
House of Commons
20 October 2009
The Bill would require information about a vehicle’s emissions and the link to climate change to appear in all printed and video advertisements for that vehicle, and in its registration documents. It would also set a minimum amount of space or airtime for this information and make it an offence to fail to comply.
The bill is currently at the second reading in the House of Commons. If it advances, it would move on to committee stage and then further stages before becoming law.
Generated 21 February 2026
This Bill was presented to Parliament on 18 June. This is known as First Reading and there was no debate on the Bill at this stage.
This Bill was on the Order Paper for a Second Reading on 26 June before being dropped by its sponsor, Colin Challen.
No recorded votes for this bill yet.
