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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether he has (a) convened and (b) any plans to convene a Cabinet sub-committee on supporting the development and take up of electric vehicles.

There are no plans to convene a Cabinet sub-committee on supporting the development and uptake of electric vehicles. The Economic and Industrial Strategy (Economic Affairs) sub-Committee is the relevant committee for securing cross-Government agreement on electric vehicle strategy and policy. In 2018 the sub-Committee agreed to the Government’s Road to Zero strategy on the transition to zero emission vehicles. The measures outlined in the Strategy amount to nearly £1.5 billion of investment and represent one of the world’s most comprehensive packages of support for zero-emission vehicles. Since 2011, the Government has supported the purchase of over 170,000 ultra low emission vehicles.