Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will make it his policy to introduce early stage projects with the objectives of (a) progressing the introduction of hydrogen trains on the UK rail network and (b) increasing exports of UK-made hydrogen trains.

The Government supports the use of new technologies like hydrogen trains on the railway to deliver our legally binding target of net-zero UK greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. To achieve railway decarbonisation, the Department is currently working with Network Rail and the rail industry to determine which parts of the network are best suited to the use of hydrogen or battery trains, and which parts are best suited to further electrification.