Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government on publishing best practice and guidance for local authorities on how they should interact with car club operators.

Local authorities are responsible for entering into agreements with car club operators to allow car club vehicles to be parked in their area. Guidance for local authorities is available from organisations representing car clubs.

In addition, the Department for Transport is working closely with the Ministry for Housing Communities and Local Government to understand the ways in which future planning reforms can reduce car dependency, including the role car clubs can play, to provide genuine modal choice for journeys and ultimately make walking cycling and public transport the first choice for journeys.

The Future of Mobility Urban Strategy was published in March 2019 and sets out in its Principles that "mobility innovation must help to reduce congestion through more efficient use of limited road space”. We will soon be publishing our Transport Decarbonisation Plan to achieve net zero emissions across all modes of transport which represents the biggest piece of work we have ever done to tackle greenhouse gas emissions from transport. Car clubs and shared mobility will be considered within the Transport Decarbonisation Plan.