Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether his Department is taking steps to (a) help increase the capture and reuse of used cooking oil and (b) support the domestic production of (i) hydrotreated vegetable oil and (ii) other low-carbon liquid fuels.

The Government published impact assessments alongside consultations on phasing out the installation of fossil fuel heating off the gas grid, on 19 October 2021. The Government will respond to those consultations and set out further details in due course.

The Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation (RTFO) scheme continues to drive a market for low carbon liquid fuels. Under the RTFO scheme, sustainable low carbon liquid fuels, including hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO), are eligible for support when used in road transport and forms of non-road mobile machinery, with waste-based fuels such as HVO derived from used cooking oil benefitting from twice the reward available to low carbon fuels produced from crops.