Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will make an assessment of potential merits of taking steps to reduce vehicle miles driven in the UK in helping to meet the Climate Change Committee carbon budgets without increasing targets under the ZEV mandate.

In the Transport Decarbonisation Plan, we recognised that a rapid transition to zero-emission vehicles (ZEVs) will be critical for delivering emission reductions, and we have announced we will introduce a ZEV mandate to further accelerate that transition.

We also recognised the need to enable the use of sustainable travel choices, like public transport, and to make walking and cycling people’s natural first choice. To support this we have, since 2020, made record amounts of funding available for investment in buses, walking and cycling.