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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps the Government is taking to (a) support and (b) incentivise the development and adoption of (i) greener alternative technologies and (ii) improvements in the energy efficiency of vehicles and machinery in the business sector in Northern Ireland.

Last year the Government published its Transport Decarbonisation Plan and Net Zero Strategy which sets out the measures and support for decarbonising transport and other industries in line with the UK’s commitment to reach net zero by 2050. This includes the introduction of a zero-emission vehicle mandate in the UK to ensure that a percentage of manufacturers' new car and vans sales are zero emission from 2024.