Written Question·Department for Transport·UIN 41066

Public Transport: Electric Vehicles

Tabled: 25 March 2025
Answered: 2 April 2025

Question

Jim Shannon

Democratic Unionist Party — Strangford

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps she is taking to encourage the use of electric vehicles in public transport.

Answer

Simon Lightwood
The Department is working with our rail industry stakeholders to develop credible long-term plans for further decarbonisation, bearing in mind the railway is already such a carbon efficient mode of transport. We expect electrification to play an important...
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