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Cars: Carbon Emissions

Asked by Greg SmithConservativeDepartment for TransportTabled Answered 22 May 2026UIN 1265

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, a) what estimate her Department has made, in each set of projections published since 1 January 2019, of the proportion of new car registrations that will be zero emission vehicles in 2027 under (i) central, (ii

Answered by Keir Mather

The latest published projections were included in the Cost Benefit Analysis accompanying the Vehicle Emissions Trading Schemes (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 2025. https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/1101/pdfs/uksiod_20251101_en_001.pdf .

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