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date	09/07/2020
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Trains: Diesel
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate his Department has made of the proportion of the UK rail fleet that is composed of rolling diesel stock; and what the expected proportion will be in (a) 2025, (b) 2030 and (c) 2035.
tabling member constituency	Bristol East
tabling member printed	Kerry McCarthy
uin	71686
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/07/2020 answer text <p>Out of a national fleet of over 14,000 vehicles, there were approximately 3,400 passenger vehicles in service at the beginning of July 2020 that formed part of a diesel powered train. Decisions about the necessary pace of removal of diesel trains from the network to decarbonise the railway will be informed by ongoing work led by Network Rail.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Daventry answering member printed Chris Heaton-Harris question first answered 14/07/2020 15:01:58 answering member 3977 label Biography information for Chris Heaton-Harris
tabling member	1491 label Biography information for Kerry McCarthy

1222465

registered interest
date	09/07/2020
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Trains: Diesel
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will bring forward the 2040 target for the phasing out of diesel rail stock.
tabling member constituency	Bristol East
tabling member printed	Kerry McCarthy
uin	71687
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/07/2020 answer text <p>The Government is developing an ambitious Transport Decarbonisation Plan to achieve net zero emissions across all modes of transport. We will use electrification and alternative technologies such as battery and hydrogen trains to remove diesel trains from the network and decarbonise the railway.</p><p> </p><p>Ongoing work led by Network Rail will inform decisions about the pace of rail decarbonisation to achieve net zero, the deployment of different decarbonisation technologies on each part of the network, and delivery of the ambition to remove all diesel-only trains from the railway by 2040.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Daventry answering member printed Chris Heaton-Harris question first answered 14/07/2020 14:51:59 answering member 3977 label Biography information for Chris Heaton-Harris
tabling member	1491 label Biography information for Kerry McCarthy