Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of including electricity for electric vehicle charging in the Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation.

The Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation (RTFO) is the Government’s core tool for decarbonising liquid and gaseous fuels used in road transport and non-road mobile machinery.

The Department is reviewing the impact of the Greenhouse Gas Obligation scheme, which ran from 2018 to 2020, in parallel to the RTFO, and extended to electricity used in road vehicles. The review will be published shortly.

As electrification of the road vehicle fleet progresses, the Government continues to keep under review the most appropriate mechanisms for supporting the deployment of electric vehicle charging infrastructure. This includes a review of the potential merits of including electricity for electric vehicle charging in the RTFO.