Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 25 July 2018 to Question 164905 on Motorcycles: Noise, when his Department plans to publish the research it has commissioned to support police and highway authorities in combating and enforcing against excessive noise from motorcycles.

The independent research commissioned by the Department for Transport includes two phases. The first phase will includes a review of existing enforcement approaches and recommendations for best practice and instrumentation and is expected to be published in the first quarter of 2019. The results of the first phase will be trialled and analysed in the second phase.