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Motor Vehicles: Carbon Emissions

Asked by Mr Richard HoldenConservativeDepartment for TransportTabled Answered 31 October 2025UIN 84692

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much her Department has spent on (a) consultancy, (b) pilot, (c) communications, (d) branding and (e) marketing activity linked to net zero transition programmes in the commercial vehicle sector; how many (i) officials and (ii) external consultants are employed to administer those programmes; what the total annual staff cost is; and what assessment her Department has made of the effectiveness of this expenditure.

Answered by Simon Lightwood

Existing public communication activity for zero emission vehicles has not incurred any additional costs to the Department for Transport (DfT) and has been delivered by internal DfT staff as part of existing communications roles. Any other paid public communication activity has been delivered via the total Clean Energy Mission where the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero is the lead Department and budget holder.

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