Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment his Department has made of the (a) economic and (b) employment benefits of the policies which will be set out in the Transport Decarbonisation Plan.

The economic and employment benefits of the policies set out in the Transport Decarbonisation Plan are under active consideration. Their assessment is being carried out in line with existing analytical frameworks and approaches, including for instance using the Government’s Energy Innovation Needs Assessment (EINAs) methodology to estimate the GVA and jobs opportunities for road transport¹, and considers analysis and evidence from external sources, including for example the Aerospace Technology Institute (ATI) and Maritime UK. Further details will be provided in the Transport Decarbonisation Plan which we expect to publish this spring.

1 https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/energy-innovation-needs-assessments