Electric Vehicle Trading Scheme and Road Usage Duty (Consultation) Bill [HL]

1st reading & 1st reading (Hansard): House of Lords & 1st reading (Hansard)
Thursday 23rd January 2020

(4 years, 2 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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First Reading
12:06
A Bill to provide for a public consultation on the introduction of a trading obligation on vehicle manufacturers to increase the proportion of electrically propelled light passenger vehicles sold and on the introduction of a road usage duty to reduce transport carbon emissions; and to provide for graduated rates of duty to apply to modified vehicles.
The Bill was introduced by Baroness Worthington, read a first time and ordered to be printed.