SMMT News

1. Chancellor delivers Spending Round statement
2.Chief Secretary outlines government’s capital and infrastructure priorities
3. Government announces £! Million for motorsport
4. Prime Minister announces 100,000 engineering apprentices
5. Road casualties down in London during 2012
6. Week ahead

Based on data which is preliminary in some cases, global demand for passenger vehicles in May was about even with the year before.

Today, SMMT released figures for May pre-registrations in the UK new car market.

A £1 million competition to help small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) drive motorsport technologies around the world has been put on the starting grid by Universities and Science Minister David Willetts.

Find out who has joined the premier automotive trade association and what they get from membership: New members – June 2013

SMMT’s weekly round-up, including all the latest news from UK automotive.

1. Government announces DSA and VOSA merger
2. UK car manufacturing falls 8.4% in May
3. Lord Green steps down as Minister of State for Trade and Investment
4. New £20m green technologies fund for West Midlands businesses
5. Information Economy Strategy published
6. Week ahead

1. EU-US trade talks open at G8 Summit
2. European new car registrations down 5.9% in May
3. European elections to take place from 22-25 May 2014
4. Environment Committee reaffirms support for emissions trading fix
5. 2012 road deaths down 9%
6. EU Sustainable Energy Week
7. ACEA appoints new Secretary General
8. Week ahead

The motor industry’s self-regulatory body, Motor Codes, has become the UK’s largest consumer code of practice to receive government backing, with millions of motorists benefiting from the service every year. Jo Swinson MP, Consumer Affairs Minister, spoke at this week’s Trading Standards conference in Brighton where a new Trading Standards-led Consumer Codes Approval Scheme was launched to the public.

As the Chancellor of the Exchequer considers the next Spending Round, the UK automotive industry has called for long-term strategic support to match the ambitions and priorities of the forthcoming Automotive Sector Industrial Strategy.