Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will commission a study into the potential merits of the use of E10 petrol.

The revised industry fuel standard for petrol (EN228), agreed and published by the British Standards Institution in 2013, allows up to ten per cent bioethanol content (known as ‘E10’). However, E10 is not yet on general sale in the UK and whether to supply it is a commercial decision for suppliers.

The Transport Energy Task Force, made up of experts from industry and environmental NGOs, reported its findings to the Department for Transport in March 2015. The report, which included recommendations relating to E10, is available on the Low Carbon Vehicle Partnership’s website at:

http://www.lowcvp.org.uk/projects/transport-energy-task-force.htm