Buses: Hydrogen

(asked on 16th March 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the answer of 27 February 2020 to Question 22047 on Buses: Hydrogen, if he will make an assessment of the adequacy of his Department's technology blind policy in relation to investment in hydrogen buses.


Answered by
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Rachel Maclean
This question was answered on 24th March 2020

On 10 February, the Prime Minister announced £5 billion of new funding to overhaul bus and cycle links, including at least 4,000 new zero emission buses, to support the Government in reducing carbon emissions to net zero by 2050.

The National Bus Strategy, due to be published later this year, will include further details on these plans.

The Transport Decarbonisation Plan, due to be published later this year, will also set out more information on the Department’s approach to decarbonisation.

Through the Department’s various competitively-bid grant funding schemes for new clean buses over the past few years, under the Low Emission Bus Scheme where funding was awarded in 2015 and 2017, £3,814,000 was allocated to hydrogen buses and supporting infrastructure; under the Ultra-Low Emission Bus Scheme, £4,360,435 was allocated in 2019 to hydrogen buses and supporting infrastructure.

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