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1600616

registered interest
date	02/03/2023
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Electric Vehicles: VAT
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of the level of VAT applied to electric vehicle charging on his electric vehicle policies.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh West
tabling member printed	Christine Jardine
uin	903833
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2023 answer text <p>The Government has committed to keeping the transition to electric vehicles affordable for consumers across the UK. Taxation policy and its impacts are taken into consideration when developing policies that will support and accelerate the transition to zero emission vehicles. Taxation is a matter for HM Treasury and the Chancellor keeps all taxes under review.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 02/03/2023 11:46:08 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4634 label Biography information for Christine Jardine

1600619

registered interest
date	02/03/2023
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Electric Vehicles: Charging Points
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the availability of electric vehicle charging points.
tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
tabling member printed	Vicky Foxcroft
uin	903836
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2023 answer text <p>Today, the majority of electric vehicle charging happens at home. The Department expects this trend to continue. In addition, there is an extensive public charging network across the country, with over 37,600 available chargers. Government support and industry investment has seen the number of public chargepoints more than triple over the last four years. Last week, the Department for Transport announced an additional £56 million in public and industry funding for local chargepoints across the country.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 02/03/2023 11:50:02 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4491 label Biography information for Vicky Foxcroft

1600829

registered interest
date	02/03/2023
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Motor Vehicles: Exhaust Emissions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when his Department plans to publish the results of the consultation on Policy design features for the car and van zero emission vehicle mandate.
tabling member constituency	Stalybridge and Hyde
tabling member printed	Jonathan Reynolds
uin	156954
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/03/2023 answer text <p><strong> </strong></p><p>Responses to the technical consultation are being analysed and the Government will publish its response, and a full regulatory proposal and cost benefit analysis, in due course.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 07/03/2023 14:00:59 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4119 label Biography information for Jonathan Reynolds

1600225

registered interest
date	01/03/2023
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Electric Vehicles: Charging Points
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the Government’s Ten Point Plan for a Green Industrial Revolution, published on 18 November 2020, how much of the £1.3bn the Government planned to spend to accelerate the roll out of EV charging infrastructure has been spent to date; and in which areas of the UK he plans to invest under that Plan.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Hallam
tabling member printed	Olivia Blake
uin	156314
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/03/2023 answer text <p>The Government is committed to decarbonising transport by phasing out the sale of new petrol and diesel cars and vans by 2030. It has already spent over £2 billion to support the transition to zero emission vehicles. This funding has focused on reducing barriers to the adoption of such vehicles, including offsetting their higher upfront cost, and accelerating the rollout of chargepoint infrastructure.</p><p> </p><p>Government spend on charging infrastructure for the financial years 2020/21 and 2021/22 is set out in the table below.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Project/Scheme</p></td><td><p>20-21</p></td><td><p>21-22</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Electric Vehicle Homecharge Scheme and its predecessor Domestic Recharging Scheme.</p></td><td><p>£24,426,000</p></td><td><p>£54,910,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Workplace Charging Scheme</p></td><td><p>£1,536,000</p></td><td><p>£5,803,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>On Street Residential Chargepoint Scheme</p></td><td><p>£6,028,000</p></td><td><p>£20,578,000</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>This does not include finalised spending on infrastructure schemes for the 2022/23 financial year, which will be available in due course.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is committed to ensuring that the deployment of EV charging infrastructure happens across all areas of the country. Last summer the Government launched the Local Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (LEVI) Pilot, accelerating the delivery of chargepoints across the country. It has now expanded this LEVI pilot scheme to an additional sixteen local authorities, from West Sussex to Rotherham and Cumbria.</p><p> </p><p>Work is being undertaken to develop the Rapid Charging Fund (RCF). This year, the Government will launch a public consultation on the RCF and a pilot scheme.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 06/03/2023 11:13:06 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4864 label Biography information for Olivia Blake

1599929

registered interest
date	28/02/2023
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Department for Transport: Minimum Wage
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether his Department has contracted work to a business named in round 18 of the National Minimum Wage Naming Scheme in the last 3 years.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	155156
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/03/2023 answer text <p>A search of the DfTc supplier database has found no record of DfTc having any contracts in the last three years with any business named in round 18 of the National Minimum Wage Naming Scheme.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 03/03/2023 09:10:17 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

1599978

registered interest
date	28/02/2023
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Cycling and Walking: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much funding has been allocated to City Region Sustainable Transport Settlements for active travel in each of the financial years from 2020-21 to 2024-25.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough
tabling member printed	Gill Furniss
uin	155188
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/03/2023 answer text <p>Through the City Region Sustainable Transport Settlements (CRSTS) programme the Government has agreed five-year local transport funding settlements for seven eligible city regions from April 2022. CRSTS funding is supporting improvements across a range of transport modes, but based on the plans put forward by Mayors the Government expect at least £700m to be allocated to active travel infrastructure over the period 2022-25.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 03/03/2023 09:22:32 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4571 label Biography information for Gill Furniss

1599446

registered interest
date	27/02/2023
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Electric Vehicles: Charging Points
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many electric vehicle charging points were installed in (a) 2020, (b) 2021 and (c) 2022; and what recent assessment he has made of progress on the Department's plan to support the UK market to reach 300,000 public electric vehicle charging points by 2030.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Hallam
tabling member printed	Olivia Blake
uin	153992
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2023 answer text <p>Data held by the Department on electric vehicle charging devices in the UK is sourced from those installed or funded under government approved grant schemes, and from the electric vehicle charging platform Zap-Map. Charging devices not supplied via these schemes or recorded on Zap-Map are not included and the true number of charging devices will likely be higher than recorded in these figures.</p><p> </p><p>The below table provides the data available for (i) 2020, (ii) 2021 and (ii) 2022. Figures are correct as at 1 October 2022, except for Zap-Map which are as at 1 February 2023.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Calendar year</p></td><td><p>2020</p></td><td><p>2021</p></td><td><p>2022</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>a.) Public charging devices (see note 1)</p></td><td><p>4,270</p></td><td><p>7,600</p></td><td><p>8,680</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>b.) Electric Vehicle Homecharge Scheme</p></td><td><p>54,197</p></td><td><p>115,799</p></td><td><p>70,682</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>c.) Electric Vehicle Chargepoint Grant sockets installed</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>972</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>d.) Workplace Charging Scheme sockets installed</p></td><td><p>6,257</p></td><td><p>11,093</p></td><td><p>11,891</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>The Government expects around 300,000 public electric vehicle chargepoints by 2030, as set out in the electric vehicle infrastructure strategy. The Government will focus intervention on two crucial sectors: high powered chargers on the strategic road network and local on-street charging.</p><p> </p><p>We will accelerate the rollout of high powered chargers on the strategic road network through the Rapid Charging Fund (RCF). The Local EV Infrastructure (LEVI) Fund will support local authorities in England to work with industry and transform the availability of local on-street charging.</p><p> </p><p>Table notes:</p><p>- indicates data not collected as grant scheme not running in this time period</p><p> </p><p>1) Zap-Map data counts charging devices publicly available at any given point, with decommissioned chargepoints removed from the data supplied to us. Therefore, the number of installed public chargepoints in each given year is likely to be higher as this accounts for the number decommissioned and removed from the data.</p><p> </p><p>2) The data across these sources and the columns in the table should not be summed to create a total as the public charging device statistics and EVHS statistics count charging devices whereas WCS and EVCG counts charging sockets, making them incompatible to sum together.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 02/03/2023 16:23:42 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4864 label Biography information for Olivia Blake

1599479

registered interest
date	27/02/2023
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Transport: Carbon Emissions
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 with Cabinet colleagues to support local authorities' delivery of the Transport decarbonisation plan.
tabling member constituency	Croydon Central
tabling member printed	Sarah Jones
uin	153934
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/03/2023 answer text <p>The Department is supporting local authorities to decarbonise with funding and tools, helping them to build their capacity and capability. Key programmes include the £5.7 billion City Region Sustainable Transport Settlements and the £4.8 billion Levelling Up Fund, which supports local delivery of transport decarbonisation alongside other government objectives.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has also established Active Travel England to help local authorities deliver high quality walking and cycling schemes and last month announced an additional £56 million of public and industry funding to support the rollout of local electric vehicle chargepoints across the country.</p><p> </p><p>The Government will shortly be consulting on new Local Transport Plan (LTP) guidance that will support better and more integrated strategic planning and provide new guidance to authorities in quantifying the carbon impact of their plans. This is in addition to work underway to update its Local Authority Transport Decarbonisation Toolkit on a range of interventions.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 03/03/2023 09:15:26 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4631 label Biography information for Sarah Jones

1599524

registered interest
date	27/02/2023
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Department for Transport: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to his Department’s publication of workforce management information for the months of March and April 2022, for what reasons those months show the same figures in the seven categories for payroll staff costs, the three categories for non-payroll staff costs and the total for all staff costs.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	153873
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2023 answer text <p><del class="ministerial">The March 2022 workforce management information was incorrectly used to report April 2022 data. The Department has requested the publication of the correct April 2022 data and the figures will be updated by 2 March 2023.</del></p><p> </p><p><ins class="ministerial">The March 2022 workforce management information was incorrectly used to report April 2022 data. The Department has requested the publication of the correct April 2022 data and the figures were updated on 9 March 2023.</ins></p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 02/03/2023 12:00:49 question first ministerially corrected 10/03/2023 10:45:59 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman previous answer version 58913 answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

1599545

registered interest
date	27/02/2023
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Transport: Apprentices
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent assessment he has made of the availability of apprenticeships across the transport sector.
tabling member constituency	Wimbledon
tabling member printed	Stephen Hammond
uin	153724
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/03/2023 answer text <p>The Department regularly reviews the availability of apprenticeships within the transport industry. It is committed to working with arm’s length bodies and industry partners to create high quality apprenticeships, so that the sector has the skilled workforce in place to build, maintain and run the UK transport system. For example, the HS2 programme is expected to create 2000 apprenticeships. The Transport Employment and Skills Taskforce, established in 2022, is considering what more IT can do to promote apprenticeships and other training routes across the industry.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 06/03/2023 10:25:09 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond