Written Question·Department for Transport·UIN 61955

Cars: Sales

Tabled: 23 June 2025
Answered: 1 July 2025

Question

Charlotte Nichols

LabourWarrington North

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will make it her policy to ensure that (a) all cars sold in the UK must have had safety tests undertaken on them that include specifically-female crash dummies in both the driver and passenger seats and

Answer

Lilian Greenwood
The latest international vehicle regulations covering frontal impact protection developed under the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) currently use a crash test dummy representative of a female occupant in the front passenger seat. The...

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