Written Question·Department for Transport·UIN 117572

Fishing Vessels: Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation

Tabled: 3 March 2026

Answered: 9 March 2026

Named Day

Question

Jayne Kirkham

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether small to medium-sized commercial work and fishing vessels could be incorporated in the RTFO framework, allowing carbon credits to be applied to each litre of fuel and reducing the cost per litre of HVO.

Answer

Keir Mather

Last year the Government published the Maritime Decarbonisation Strategy, setting out the pathway to zero emissions by 2050. This will be delivered through five key policies, including fuel regulation and emissions trading. Alongside this we published a C...

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