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date	28/03/2023
answering body	Department for Business and Trade
answering dept id	214
answering dept short name	Business and Trade
answering dept sort name	Business and Trade
hansard heading	Automotive Transformation Fund: Hydrogen
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, for what reason hydrogen combustion engines are not eligible for automotive transformation funding.
tabling member constituency	Darlington
tabling member printed	Peter Gibson
uin	175660
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/04/2023 answer text <p>At present, all commercial internal combustion engines produce exhaust emissions that are harmful to health. Although some companies claim hydrogen combustion engines are close to zero NOx emissions, as well as CO2, Government has yet to see evidence to illustrate that zero harmful emissions at the exhaust are possible in either laboratory or real-world conditions.</p><p> </p><p>We will continue to focus innovation support to fully zero emission solutions. However, if technology developments enable renewable hydrogen to be used in combustion engines with zero harmful tailpipe emissions, then we would welcome this development.</p> answering member constituency Wealden answering member printed Ms Nusrat Ghani question first answered 03/04/2023 14:35:25 answering member 4460 label Biography information for Ms Nusrat Ghani
tabling member	4754 label Biography information for Peter Gibson

1608122

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date	28/03/2023
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Engines: Hydrogen
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will take further steps to support hydrogen combustion engine technology.
tabling member constituency	Darlington
tabling member printed	Peter Gibson
uin	175661
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/04/2023 answer text <p>Hydrogen combustion engines offer the potential to decarbonise part of the transport sectors where battery electric is not t a viable solution. The Government has recently supported JCB, for example, to test new hydrogen combustion machinery on the public highway, as well as supported research into the liquid hydrogen combustion for aviation engines.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 04/04/2023 11:32:10 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4754 label Biography information for Peter Gibson