Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will confirm that his policy on applicable weight limits for Mobile Concrete Batching Plants (MCBPs) has resulted in a significant change that will apply to all (a) old and (b) new registrations for MCBPs not eligible to operate under a Vehicle Special Order after 1 September 2018.

The Department has put in place a 10-year temporary arrangement enabling some mobile concrete batching plant to operate in excess of standard weight limits to provide time for the operators of these vehicles to come into compliance with the currently-applicable legal limits.

Vehicles that are not eligible for operation under these arrangements, such as vehicles over 12 years old and those first registered after 2018, remain entitled to operate at the same standard weight limits that have previously applied.