PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
(21 February 2025)

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 5 February 2025 to Question 26900 on Highways England: Vehicles, whether her Department plans to sell National Highway’s (a) diesel and (b) plug-in hybrid vehicles before 2027; and when those vehicles were purchased.

Asked by:
Nick Timothy (Conservative)

Operational decisions on its vehicle fleet are made by National Highways; the fleet replacement strategy is to retain vehicles for an operational period of around 3 to 4 years, subject to factors such as mileage, general condition, and suitability for ongoing operational use. National Highways contracts with vehicle disposal agents that use auction services to repurpose and sell its vehicles at the end of their operational life.

The table below details the current number of diesel and plug-in hybrid vehicles which were added to National Highways’ fleet (by year, since 2018) to align with the governments’ Road to Zero Strategy for vehicle replacements.

On fleet date	Number of Vehicles	Fuel Type
2018	1	Diesel
	0	PHEV
2019	5	Diesel
	2	PHEV
2020	5	Diesel
	15	PHEV
2021	0	Diesel
	128	PHEV
2022	0	Diesel
	174	PHEV
2023	0	Diesel
	195	PHEV
2024	0	Diesel
	75	PHEV

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