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1137846

registered interest
date	09/07/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Electric Vehicles
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent assessment his Department has made of which models of electric vehicle are most popular with consumers by region; and for which of those models are plug-in grants available.
tabling member constituency	Feltham and Heston
tabling member printed	Seema Malhotra
uin	275203
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/07/2019 answer text <p>The attached tables show the top six most popular ultra low emission vehicle models with consumers by region between April 2018 and March 2019. Those vehicles eligible for plug-in grants are marked with a star. A number of different models are popular with consumers across the country. The number of models of ultra low emission vehicles available in the UK continues to increase. Nearly all major automakers have made significant commitments to start selling ULEVs.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Northampton North answering member printed Michael Ellis question first answered 16/07/2019 14:58:47 answering member 4116 label Biography information for Sir Michael Ellis attachment 1 file name Tables for PQs 261774 and 261775.xlsx title Tables of ULEV models by region
tabling member	4253 label Biography information for Seema Malhotra

1137928

registered interest
date	09/07/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Electric Vehicles
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Vere of Norbiton on 5 July (HL16757), whether electrically powered personal vehicles such as scooters, gyroscopic one or two-wheel vehicles and other similar vehicles are permitted to operate anywhere.
tabling member printed	Lord Berkeley
uin	HL17027
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/07/2019 answer text <p>Electrically assisted pedal cycles (EAPCs) are allowed on cycle routes provided they conform with the Electrically Assisted Pedal Cycles Regulations. If an EAPC meets those regulatory requirements it is treated the same as a pedal cycle.</p><p> </p><p>In the UK, electric scooters are treated like any other motor vehicle under the Road Traffic Act. This means they are subject to laws requiring them to conform to technical standards and be used safely. This includes requirements for users to have insurance, driving licences, number plates, and helmets. At present, it is difficult for electric scooters to meet these requirements.</p><p> </p><p>Therefore, it is illegal to use an electric scooter on public roads and pavements. They are legal for use on private land with the landowners’ permission.</p><p> </p><p>The Future of Mobility regulatory review will address the challenges of ensuring our transport infrastructure and regulation are fit for the future. This is a broad programme of work, and we expect to publish an initial consultation in autumn this year.</p> answering member printed Baroness Vere of Norbiton grouped question UIN HL17024 HL17025 HL17026 question first answered 23/07/2019 11:41:33 answering member 4580 label Biography information for Baroness Vere of Norbiton
tabling member	3526 label Biography information for Lord Berkeley

1136224

registered interest
date	02/07/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Electric Vehicles
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps his Department has taken to support electric vehicles in (a) becoming competitive without financial incentives or subsidies for their purchase and (b) reaching price parity with non-electric vehicles.
tabling member constituency	Feltham and Heston
tabling member printed	Seema Malhotra
uin	272192
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2019 answer text <p>We are investing nearly £1.5bn‎ between April 2015 and March 2021, with grants available for plug in cars, vans, lorries, buses, taxis and motorcycles, and schemes to support chargepoint infrastructure at homes, workplaces and on residential streets. These subsidies are designed to support the early market and achieve a competitive, self-sustaining market.</p><p> </p><p>The £400m public-private Charging Infrastructure Investment Fund will add thousands more public chargepoints. The Automated and Electric Vehicles Act gives Government new powers to regulate the chargepoint market and improve the experience for consumers. We have supported the installation of more than 20,000 public chargepoints, including over 2,000 rapid chargepoints. The UK’s network is already one of the largest networks in Europe and the Road to Zero strategy includes new commitments to massively expand electric and low emission vehicle infrastructure across the country. The Government has also put in place a favourable tax regime that rewards the cleanest, zero emission vehicles.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has awarded over £300m in grants via Innovate UK into ultra low emission technologies. Part of this is the Faraday battery challenge, designed to ensure research and innovation takes centre stage in the Industrial Strategy and to reduce the cost of new technologies.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has also put in place a favourable tax regime that rewards the cleanest, zero emission vehicles. Go Ultra Low is a joint Government-Industry funded campaign which aims to inform vehicle purchasers about the operational savings from driving electric vehicles and to dispel widespread myths.</p><p> </p><p>We anticipate that electric vehicles will achieve price parity with their petrol and diesel counterparts in the mid-2020s. We will review progress by 2025. Against a rapidly evolving international context, we will seek to maintain the UK’s leadership position and meet our ambitions, and will consider what interventions are required if not enough progress is being made.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Northampton North answering member printed Michael Ellis grouped question UIN 272193 question first answered 09/07/2019 13:02:13 answering member 4116 label Biography information for Sir Michael Ellis
tabling member	4253 label Biography information for Seema Malhotra

1136225

registered interest
date	02/07/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Electric Vehicles
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps his Department has taken to provide support for the purchase of electric vehicles to meet the targets set out in the Government's Net Zero Road Strategy.
tabling member constituency	Feltham and Heston
tabling member printed	Seema Malhotra
uin	272193
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2019 answer text <p>We are investing nearly £1.5bn‎ between April 2015 and March 2021, with grants available for plug in cars, vans, lorries, buses, taxis and motorcycles, and schemes to support chargepoint infrastructure at homes, workplaces and on residential streets. These subsidies are designed to support the early market and achieve a competitive, self-sustaining market.</p><p> </p><p>The £400m public-private Charging Infrastructure Investment Fund will add thousands more public chargepoints. The Automated and Electric Vehicles Act gives Government new powers to regulate the chargepoint market and improve the experience for consumers. We have supported the installation of more than 20,000 public chargepoints, including over 2,000 rapid chargepoints. The UK’s network is already one of the largest networks in Europe and the Road to Zero strategy includes new commitments to massively expand electric and low emission vehicle infrastructure across the country. The Government has also put in place a favourable tax regime that rewards the cleanest, zero emission vehicles.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has awarded over £300m in grants via Innovate UK into ultra low emission technologies. Part of this is the Faraday battery challenge, designed to ensure research and innovation takes centre stage in the Industrial Strategy and to reduce the cost of new technologies.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has also put in place a favourable tax regime that rewards the cleanest, zero emission vehicles. Go Ultra Low is a joint Government-Industry funded campaign which aims to inform vehicle purchasers about the operational savings from driving electric vehicles and to dispel widespread myths.</p><p> </p><p>We anticipate that electric vehicles will achieve price parity with their petrol and diesel counterparts in the mid-2020s. We will review progress by 2025. Against a rapidly evolving international context, we will seek to maintain the UK’s leadership position and meet our ambitions, and will consider what interventions are required if not enough progress is being made.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Northampton North answering member printed Michael Ellis grouped question UIN 272192 question first answered 09/07/2019 13:02:13 answering member 4116 label Biography information for Sir Michael Ellis
tabling member	4253 label Biography information for Seema Malhotra

1135893

registered interest
date	01/07/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Electric Vehicles
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps he is taking to incentivise the take-up of electric vehicles in areas with high levels of pollution.
tabling member constituency	Feltham and Heston
tabling member printed	Seema Malhotra
uin	271500
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2019 answer text <p>The UK Government takes its air quality obligations extremely seriously and is firmly committed to improving the UK’s air quality and cutting harmful emissions. In July 2017, we published the UK Plan for Tackling Roadside Nitrogen Dioxide Concentrations, setting out how we will achieve compliance in the shortest possible time. As a result of this, we are now working closely with 61 English local authorities, and have placed legal duties on them to tackle their nitrogen dioxide exceedances. This is underpinned by £495m in funding, including £220m Clean Air Fund to mitigate the impact of the plans on individuals and businesses. This funding can include, where appropriate, funding towards incentivising take up of electric vehicles.</p><p> </p><p>To support the transition to zero emission vehicles, we are investing nearly £1.5bn‎ between April 2015 and March 2021, with grants available for plug in vehicles, and schemes to support charge point infrastructure at homes and workplaces and on residential streets. We have made real progress to date. 200,000 ultra-low emission vehicles are now registered in the UK, and we now have over 20,000 publicly accessible chargepoints. More than 2,000 are rapid devices – one of the largest networks in Europe.</p><p> </p><p>In London, the Plug-in Car Grant (PIGC) paid out £45m in respect of vehicles registered in London.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Northampton North answering member printed Michael Ellis question first answered 08/07/2019 15:40:57 answering member 4116 label Biography information for Sir Michael Ellis
tabling member	4253 label Biography information for Seema Malhotra

1135894

registered interest
date	01/07/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Electric Vehicles
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent estimate he has made of the (a) number and (b) proportion of vehicles that are electric in each (i) region and (ii) nation of the UK.
tabling member constituency	Feltham and Heston
tabling member printed	Seema Malhotra
uin	271501
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2019 answer text <p>The following table contains the number and proportion of all licensed vehicles that are electric at the end of March 2019. This includes battery electric, plug-in hybrid electric and fuel cell electric vehicles.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Region/Country</p></td><td><p>Number</p></td><td><p>Proportion</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North East</p></td><td><p>3,599</p></td><td><p>0.26%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North West</p></td><td><p>11,287</p></td><td><p>0.29%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Yorkshire and The Humber</p></td><td><p>14,174</p></td><td><p>0.47%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>East Midlands</p></td><td><p>11,449</p></td><td><p>0.38%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>West Midlands</p></td><td><p>28,400</p></td><td><p>0.75%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>East</p></td><td><p>26,835</p></td><td><p>0.66%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>London</p></td><td><p>26,253</p></td><td><p>0.85%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South East</p></td><td><p>42,482</p></td><td><p>0.67%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South West</p></td><td><p>22,871</p></td><td><p>0.56%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>England</p></td><td><p>187,350</p></td><td><p>0.57%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wales</p></td><td><p>4,290</p></td><td><p>0.22%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Scotland</p></td><td><p>12,397</p></td><td><p>0.41%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Northern Ireland</p></td><td><p>2,664</p></td><td><p>0.23%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>United Kingdom TOTAL</p></td><td><p>210,415</p></td><td><p>0.53%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency Northampton North answering member printed Michael Ellis question first answered 09/07/2019 10:43:07 answering member 4116 label Biography information for Sir Michael Ellis
tabling member	4253 label Biography information for Seema Malhotra

1135085

registered interest
date	26/06/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Electric Vehicles
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how they intend to encourage commercial organisations and Government agencies to replace their current fleets with electric vehicles.
tabling member printed	Baroness Randerson
uin	HL16712
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/07/2019 answer text <p>The Government are investing nearly £1.5bn‎ between April 2015 and March 2021 to support the transition to ultra-low emission vehicles. Through this funding, commercial organisations are able to take advantage of various grants to help buy plug-in cars, vans, lorries, buses, taxis and motorcycles, alongside schemes to support charge point infrastructure at homes, workplaces and on residential streets.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Government leadership is vital. At the 2017 Autumn Budget, the Government made a commitment that 25% of central government cars will be ultra-low emission by 2022, followed by a further commitment in last year’s Road to Zero strategy that 100% will be ultra-low emission by 2030. In December 2017, the Government updated the Government Buying Standards for transport, including this new commitment. The Government Car Service, managed by the Department for Transport, is on track to meet the targets, with electric vehicles making up 23% of the entire fleet today. The Transport Secretary has written to every government department to reinforce the 2022 pledge. This provided detailed guidance on how each department can drive the transition in their own fleet and asked them to publish a yearly progress report. We expect these steps will encourage both public and private fleets across the country to adopt ambitious targets.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Vere of Norbiton question first answered 05/07/2019 10:52:39 answering member 4580 label Biography information for Baroness Vere of Norbiton
tabling member	4230 label Biography information for Baroness Randerson

1133910

registered interest
date	21/06/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Electric Vehicles
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will allocate additional funding to (a) encourage and (b) support people to purchase electric vehicles.
tabling member constituency	Easington
tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
uin	267735
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2019 answer text <p>We are investing nearly £1.5bn‎ between April 2015 and March 2021, with grants available for battery electric and hydrogen vehicles, alongside schemes to support charge point infrastructure at homes and workplaces and on residential streets. Along with other measures in the Government’s Road to Zero strategy, this adds up to one of the most comprehensive support packages in the world for the transition to zero emission vehicles. As part of the forthcoming spending review Government will be laying out funding and other measures for future years across all departments.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Northampton North answering member printed Michael Ellis question first answered 27/06/2019 14:18:05 answering member 4116 label Biography information for Sir Michael Ellis
tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

1130828

registered interest
date	10/06/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Electric Vehicles
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assistance they provide to encourage operators of public service vehicles, including taxis, to switch to electrically powered vehicles, in order to meet their de-carbonisation targets.
tabling member printed	Lord Jones of Cheltenham
uin	HL16195
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/06/2019 answer text <p>Since 2010 the Government has provided almost £150 million to bus operators and local authorities to support the purchase of the cleanest buses. In February 2019 the winners of the £48 million Ultra-Low Emission Bus Scheme were announced, providing funding to support the purchase of 263 zero emission buses and supporting infrastructure.</p><p> </p><p>The Government continues to run the £50m Plug-in Taxi Grant Scheme, which offers up to £7,500 on the price of eligible ultra-low emission taxis. We have also awarded just over £20m in funding across 27 local authorities to install over 900 chargepoints dedicated to ultra-low emission taxis and private hire vehicles.</p> answering member printed Baroness Vere of Norbiton question first answered 19/06/2019 14:54:31 answering member 4580 label Biography information for Baroness Vere of Norbiton
tabling member	248 label Biography information for Lord Jones of Cheltenham

1129161

registered interest
date	03/06/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Electric Vehicles
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what research his Department has (a) commissioned and (b) undertaken to assess the reduction of battery capacity of electric vehicles as a result of regular recharging.
tabling member constituency	Warley
tabling member printed	John Spellar
uin	258988
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/06/2019 answer text <p>Research into battery technologies is being led by the £274m Faraday Battery Challenge which is funded through the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund. As part of this, the University of Cambridge (with eight other university and 10 industry partners) is leading a project on battery degradation, examining how environmental and internal battery stresses, including charging and discharging rates, damage electric vehicle batteries over time.</p><p> </p><p>Alongside this, the Office for Low Emission Vehicles is currently funding a £30m competition looking at Vehicle to Grid technologies. Many of the projects in this competition are also collecting data on battery usage and capacity.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Northampton North answering member printed Michael Ellis question first answered 11/06/2019 13:55:12 answering member 4116 label Biography information for Sir Michael Ellis
tabling member	318 label Biography information for John Spellar