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Written Question
Large Goods Vehicles: Carbon Emissions
Thursday 5th June 2025

Asked by: Kenneth Stevenson (Labour - Airdrie and Shotts)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps her Department is taking to support the decarbonisation of Heavy Duty Vehicles.

Answered by Lilian Greenwood - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)

The Government is committed to decarbonising heavy-duty vehicles, and is supporting this through programmes such as the Plug-in Truck Grant, the Zero Emission HGV and Infrastructure Demonstrator (ZEHID) programme, further funding for the Zero Emission Bus Regional Areas programme, and a bus decarbonisation measure in the Bus Services Bill, which is currently going through Parliament.

Written Question
Large Goods Vehicles: Carbon Emissions
Thursday 5th June 2025

Asked by: Kenneth Stevenson (Labour - Airdrie and Shotts)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent assessment her Department has made of the potential economic merits of introducing a Zero Emission Vehicle Mandate for Heavy Duty Vehicles.

Answered by Lilian Greenwood - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)

The Government believes that more needs to be done to decarbonise the road freight sector. We are considering our regulatory approach to decarbonise new non-zero emission heavy goods vehicles and will engage with stakeholders in due course.