PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Electric Vehicles: Carbon Emissions (25 February 2021)

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of introducing a zero emissions vehicle mandate for manufactures to produce, import or sell new electric vehicles.

Asked by:
Matt Western (Labour)

The Prime Minister’s Ten Point Plan for a Green Industrial Revolution, published in November 2020, brought forward the end of sale date of new petrol and diesel cars and vans to 2030. It also announced that a Green Paper would be published later this year to consider the regulatory options available to deliver these phase out dates and support supply of electric vehicles to the UK market.

Answered by:
Rachel Maclean (Conservative)
5 March 2021