Taxis: Exhaust Emissions

(asked on 1st March 2021) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent assessment he has made of the effect of Clean Air Zones on wheelchair accessible taxi and private hire vehicles.


Answered by
Rachel Maclean Portrait
Rachel Maclean
This question was answered on 8th March 2021

Clean Air Zones (CAZ) charge taxis and private hire vehicles (PHVs) as due to high mileage they can significantly contribute to air pollution, especially in the case of older vehicles. Local Authorities implementing CAZs assess impacts on taxis and PHVs which include wheelchair accessible vehicles. JAQU provides clean air funding (CAF) to mitigate these impacts has paid nearly £400m CAF funding to date. Portsmouth has been awarded £1.8m from this fund and a further award is expected to be made shortly.

Government continues to offer the Plug in Taxi Grant, which provides a grant of up to £7,500 off the cost of eligible ULEV taxis, which must be wheelchair accessible, and has supported over 4,400 vehicles so far. Government has also awarded over £20 million to 27 local authorities to deploy almost 800 rapid and fast chargepoints, dedicated to electric taxis and Private Hire Vehicles (PHVs).

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