Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Chris Ward and Toby Perkins

Thursday 23rd April 2026 Commons Chamber

[Mr Toby Perkins (Chesterfield) (Lab)]

T6. I welcome what my right hon. Friends have been doing on public procurement. On car hire services, it is expected that around 20% of fleet industry vehicles will be electric, but less than 1% of Government purchases have been for electric vehicle hire. I know that the Government take this issue seriously, so will the Minister lay out what the Government are doing to ensure that they hire more electric vehicles?

[The Parliamentary Secretary, Cabinet Office (Chris Ward)]

My hon. Friend raises an important point. He is right about the reforms that we are trying to make to public procurement, and to improve our number of electric vehicles. I will write to him with the specifics on the Government Car Service.

Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Chris Ward and Toby Perkins

Thursday 4th December 2025 Commons Chamber

[Chris Ward]

As I said, one of the tragedies of the deal the last Government did was that it excluded opportunities for cultural exchange, particularly for young people. We are going to change that—it is part of the negotiations. I will ask my colleague the Minister for the Cabinet Office to come back to the hon. Lady on her specific point on the cultural bit, but in general, our aim is to get as close as we can to that agreement as quickly as we can.

[Mr Toby Perkins (Chesterfield) (Lab)]

4. What recent progress his Department has made on implementing a digital ID scheme.