Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to his announcement of 10 March 2017 that a permanent specific weight regime for Mobile Concrete Batching Plants (MCBPs) was a specific solution proposed for the very specific circumstances related to MCBPs, for what reasons his Department now concludes that it would be highly likely to receive demands for similar treatment from operators of other types of vehicles that would benefit from operating at a higher gross weight, including tippers and barrel mixers.

In December 2017 the Department sought wider stakeholder views on the concept of a specific permanent weight arrangement for mobile concrete batching plant. Following that exercise, it decided not to take forward this option. It is partly because of the feedback received on the concept that the Department concluded that other such demands would be likely.