Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what plans her Department has to help support the development of standardised high voltage battery diagnostics for electric vehicles to enable repair and reuse.

The Government is aware of calls from industry to develop standardised high voltage battery diagnostics for electric vehicles (EVs), to support repairability as well as the safe working operations of EV technicians.

While the Government currently has no plans to develop such a standard, we will continue to engage with stakeholders on this topic, for example through industry-led used EV working groups. The Government also continues to invest in battery R&D via the £4 billion allocated to 2035 for the DRIVE35 programme, and the £452 million Battery Innovation Programme, launched as part of the Modern Industrial Strategy.