To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if she will bring forward proposals to exempt volunteer drivers of minibuses used for voluntary work from the requirement to use a tachograph. (188329)

The EU Regulation on drivers’ hours (Regulation (EC) No 561/2006), which requires the use of tachographs, provides a national exemption for vehicles with between 10 and 17 seats used exclusively for the non-commercial carriage of passengers. This was implemented in Great Britain by means of the Community Drivers’ Hours and Recording Equipment Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/1819).

This exemption would apply to minibuses used by the voluntary sector provided the operation as a whole is carried out without a view to profit nor incidentally to an activity which is itself carried out with a view to profit.