Emissions scandal: VW 'deserves to suffer damage', says UK minister – as it happened

• VW's Willis says first cars with defeat device sold in UK in 2008
• Implausible senior VW staff knew, says Willis
• British taxpayer will not be out of pocket
• Transport secretary McLoughlin says satisfied so far no other carmaker cheated

6.42pm BST

To sum up, Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin came out strongly, saying Volkswagen behaved appallingly and deserved to suffer substantial damage.

He said that so far he was satisfied no other carmaker had used emissions cheating software - although not all of them had yet responded to the government.

6.24pm BST

Here's some further reading on the diesel scandal and how emissions ran out of control:

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