Electric Vehicles: Official Cars
(asked on 20th November 2020) - View Source
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what proportion of the vehicles used by his Department on Government business are electric vehicles.
Victoria Prentis
As of 12 November 2020, the proportion of electric cars operated by Defra is 6.0%. The table below shows the proportion split by organisation.
Organisation | Diesel / Petrol | Hybrid | Plug-in hybrid | Fully Electric | Total | Fully Electric Proportion |
Animal and Plant Health Agency | 162 | 90 | 7 | 4 | 263 | 1.5% |
Defra | 87 | 27 | 22 | 14 | 150 | 9.3% |
Environment Agency | 2,172 | 1,078 | 432 | 251 | 3,933 | 6.4% |
Marine Management Organisation | 17 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 24 | 4.2% |
Natural England | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0.0% |
Rural Payments Agency | 84 | 33 | 6 | 1 | 124 | 0.8% |
Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0.0% |
Total | 2,531 | 1,233 | 468 | 271 | 4,503 | 6.0% |
All of the cars above are managed by Defra Group Fleet Services (Environment Agency). There are other cars within Defra (the Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science, the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board and Sea Fish). However, they manage their own fleets and we do not hold the information requested.