VoteClimate: Environmentally Sustainable Transportation - 25th May 2021

Environmentally Sustainable Transportation - 25th May 2021

Here are the climate-related sections of speeches by MPs during the Commons debate Environmentally Sustainable Transportation.

Full text: https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2021-05-25/debates/39107061-79A3-4165-BDE5-EA31E08CBF09/EnvironmentallySustainableTransportation

The Minister for Business, Energy and Clean Growth (Anne-Marie Trevelyan)

The Government are striving to decarbonise transport by phasing out the sale of new petrol and diesel cars and vans by 2030, and from 2035 all new cars and vans must be zero emissions at the tailpipe. The plug-in van grant will support businesses to reach net zero by reducing the purchase price of new zero emission vans up to £3,000 for small vans and up to £6,000 for large vans. The plug-in truck grant also provides up to £25,000 of funding for the largest HGVs.

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Anne-Marie Trevelyan

I thank the hon. Gentleman for his kind words. We are working to ensure that the transport decarbonisation plan is as ambitious as possible, and we plan to publish in the very near future. It will set out how we incentivise operators and industry to transition to zero emission HGVs and manage emissions from the existing fleet. We are also investing £20 million this year in planning for zero emission road freight trials, which will support UK industry to develop cost-effective, zero emission HGVs and their refuelling infrastructure in the UK.

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