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Written Question
Motor Vehicles: Hydrogen
Friday 4th December 2020

Asked by: Ian Paisley (Democratic Unionist Party - North Antrim)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps his Department is taking to promote the use of hydrogen in transport.

Answered by Baroness Maclean of Redditch

The Prime Minister’s Ten Point Plan for a green industrial revolution included ambitious new policies and investment in hydrogen transport projects including:

  • £20 million to support the development of cost-effective, zero emission heavy goods vehicles in the UK
  • £20 million to help develop clean maritime technology
  • £3 million in the recently announced Tees Valley Hydrogen Transport Hub

We will build on those announcements and set out the role for hydrogen in our forthcoming Transport Decarbonisation Plan, which will set out how we intend to reduce emissions and deliver transport’s contribution to net zero by 2050.

Written Question
Buses: Exhaust Emissions
Tuesday 28th July 2020

Asked by: Ian Paisley (Democratic Unionist Party - North Antrim)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the Prime Minister's statement of 11 February 2020, Transport Infrastructure, Official Report, column 712, what discussions he has had with the Prime Minister on the timeline for the deployment of the funding committed to the purchase of more than 4,000 zero-carbon buses.

Answered by Chris Heaton-Harris

The Secretary of State has not had any specific conversations with the Prime Minister regarding the timeline for allocating the buses portion of the £5 billion funding package, that was announced in February this year.

Details of the 4,000 zero-emission buses from the funding package, including how the funding will be distributed, will be announced in due course.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 16 Jun 2020
Public Passenger Transport

"Does the hon. Gentleman agree that the best way for the Government to address those matters is urgently to introduce a national bus strategy, which would put in place a hydrogen technology programme that would allow the development of a new bus building programme that would be totally free of …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 03 Jun 2020
Covid-19: Aviation

"May I put on record my thanks to the Minister for the meetings that she has had with me and my colleagues over this crisis to deal with the airport situation in Northern Ireland which has its own particular problems? I am sure that she agrees that the staff of …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 05 Feb 2020
Transport

"Will the hon. Member give way?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 05 Feb 2020
Transport

"Is it not interesting that the Secretary of State is the only person in the debate so far to mention hydrogen, the true zero-emission product that can help us to achieve the goals set out by the Government?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 05 Feb 2020
Transport

"I welcome the £220 million announced recently by the Government for bus investment. Mine is the only constituency in the whole United Kingdom that has a British-owned bus-building company. That is an essential strategic measure by the Government, especially if they invest in bus building in Northern Ireland. It will …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 05 Feb 2020
Transport

"No, we are not destroying our planet; don’t be silly. Accelerating investment in sustainable alternative fuels will only happen if we increase air passenger travel...."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 22 Jan 2020
All-lane Running Motorways

"Order. The debate is heavily oversubscribed for a half-hour debate. Members may wish to lobby the Backbench Business Committee for a longer debate, given the considerable national interest on this subject. Tracey Crouch has asked for, and has been granted, time to speak...."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 20 Feb 2019
Aberystwyth to Carmarthen Railway Reopening

"Congratulations on the pronunciations, Minister.

Question put and agreed to...."
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