Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps he is taking to help make the use of hydrogen commercially viable for heavy good vehicles.

Last month we announced £200m of funding to expand the Department’s Zero Emission Road Freight Demonstrator programme. This will see the deployment of three zero emission HGV technologies at scale on UK roads, as announced within the Net Zero Strategy, with the battery electric and hydrogen fuel cell demonstration competitions due to launch shortly. Evidence gathered as part of these demonstrations will inform which technology, or mix of technologies are best suited to decarbonise the heaviest elements of the UK’s road freight fleet.