Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 13 December 2021 to Question 88776 on Motor Vehicles: Hydrogen, what grants are available for the purchase of hydrogen powered cars as of 13 December 2021; and what the time period for those grants being available is.

Government’s approach to delivering our long-term ambitions for greener transport is technology neutral and we are supporting hydrogen where the market favours its use.

The plug-in car grant has been in place for over a decade to help reduce the up-front purchase price of zero and ultra low emission vehicles for private motorists and businesses. Funding is currently available until financial year 2022/23. Hydrogen fuel cell cars have benefited from the grant up until March 2020, when a price cap was introduced to focus the grant on more affordable vehicles, where taxpayer funding would have greatest impact. Hydrogen fuel cell cars still benefit from discounted road tax, as well as beneficial company car tax rates which can save drivers up to £2,000 per annum.

Alongside this, the Government’s £23 million Hydrogen for Transport Programme is increasing the uptake of fuel cell electric vehicles and growing the number of publicly accessible hydrogen refuelling stations across the UK. The programme is delivering new refuelling stations, upgrading some existing stations as well as deploying hundreds of new hydrogen vehicles. ­