Question to the Department for Business and Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what information her Department holds on the number of electric vehicle manufacturing companies operating in the UK which have an ultimate owner based in (a) the UK and (b) China.

As one of the best places for automotive manufacturing many of the world's leading companies manufacture or carry out R&D in the UK. This includes Lotus who make electric hypercars at their Hethel plant in Norfolk, and the London Electric Vehicle Company who produce Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicles in Coventry. Both are owned by China's Zhejiang Geely Holding Group.

UK owned Wrightbus produce electric buses at their Ballymena plant in Northern Ireland.