Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the impact of delays to legislation on the Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation on companies producing bioethanol.

Subject to Parliamentary approval, we plan to amend the Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation to increase targets for the supply of renewable fuels from April 2018.

In September we published “The Renewable Transport Fuel Obligations Order, Government response to the consultation on amendments”. Annex A of that Government Response includes analysis of the costs and benefits of the proposals, including the impacts on the competitiveness of UK industry through an estimate of the gross value added to the UK economy by the biofuels industry under the proposed amendments. That analysis is based on an increase in targets set from 2018 to 2032.