Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that the Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation and Low Carbon Hydrogen Standard provide a consistent approach for the transport industry to access support; and what recent discussions he has had with Cabinet colleagues on cross-Departmental coordination of hydrogen policies.

The Government is committed to developing the use of hydrogen in transport and officials from BEIS and DfT work closely together in this area, including on the RTFO. The recent RTFO guidance changes for renewable fuel of non-biological origin increase the flexibility for hydrogen producers whilst driving decarbonisation. These amendments confirm DfT’s commitment in the Transport Decarbonisation Plan to maximise transport's use of additional green hydrogen. The Low Carbon Hydrogen Standard covers a range of different hydrogen production methods and BEIS will seek to incentivise projects that can demonstrate they have built or funded new low carbon generation.