Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate his Department has made of the cost of reinforcing the electricity National Grid to cater for the demands created by the Road to Zero policy.

National Grid published their 2018 Future Energy Scenarios on 12 July (http://fes.nationalgrid.com/media/1363/fes-interactive-version-final.pdf), and previously produced a bespoke note on the electricity system impacts of electric vehicles (http://fes.nationalgrid.com/media/1264/ev-myth-buster-v032.pdf). The level of impact that National Grid presents is readily manageable by the electricity system. The Government is analysing these impacts, including in relation to costs, and has established an Electric Vehicle Energy Taskforce in order to consider these issues.