Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps he is taking to reduce the level of greenhouse gas emissions from heavy goods vehicles; and if he will make a statement.

The Government has implemented measures to encourage cleaner and more fuel efficient HGVs including increasing rewards for renewable gaseous fuels under the Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation, the £11m Low Carbon Truck Trial, a £25m Advanced Biofuels Demonstration Competition, and £24 million funding to enable the freight and logistics sector to trial the very latest in innovative low and zero emission vehicle technologies in fleets.

The Department for Transport is making good progress on its review of options to further reduce CO₂ emissions from the road freight sector, which we intend to publish shortly. The Government now looking ahead to our emission reduction plan which will set out the steps we will meet our carbon budgets through the 2020s.

The Department is also engaged in EU negotiations on heavy duty vehicle CO₂ regulations, which will cover the monitoring and reporting of fuel consumption and CO₂ emissions from all new HGVs.