{"id":369195,"date":"2025-08-24T07:10:20","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T07:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/369195\/"},"modified":"2025-08-24T07:10:20","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T07:10:20","slug":"car-insurance-in-ni-could-rocket-under-plan-to-cut-mot-tests-to-every-other-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/369195\/","title":{"rendered":"Car insurance in NI \u2018could rocket\u2019 under plan to cut MOT tests to every other year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom4 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Almost three-quarters of drivers who favour move unwilling to pay higher premiums\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A car undergoing an MOT test\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/55e4413f-69e9-437b-b817-baa09cc376b6.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_caption1 beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-66f0fec7_regular beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop3 beltel-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">A car undergoing an MOT test<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">A move to MOT tests every other year will send car insurance costs soaring, an Assembly committee leader has warned.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">But a survey for a Stormont government department shows almost three out of four motorists would not be willing to pay the increased premiums even in return for fewer<a href=\"https:\/\/www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk\/life\/motoring\/easiest-place-for-drivers-to-pass-mot-test-in-northern-ireland-revealed\/a1176193059.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> MOTs<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Almost three-quarters of drivers who favour move unwilling to pay higher premiums A car undergoing an MOT test&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":369196,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[487,84491,1435,1144,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-369195","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-cost-of-living","9":"tag-department-for-infrastructure","10":"tag-liz-kimmins","11":"tag-northern-ireland","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115082495559847138","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369195\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/369196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}