Transport written question – answered at on 14 March 2013.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what discussions he has had with the road freight industry on the use of dual-fuel trucks to reduce carbon emissions.
In July 2011, the then Secretary of State for Transport, my right hon. Friend Mr Hammond, met with a number of representatives of the road freight transport industry to discuss the barriers preventing market uptake of low emission HGVs. Following this, a Task Force was established under the 2011 Logistics Growth Review to promote the use of fuel efficient, low emission road freight technologies. Also announced under the Logistics Growth Review was a low carbon truck and infrastructure trial. 13 projects were subsequently chosen to receive funding to trial alternatively-fuelled trucks including over 300 dual fuel trucks.
Since joining the Department, I attended a meeting of the Task Force in November 2012 to hear the views of the industry on issues including alternatively fuelled vehicles.
I met with the Freight Transport Association (FTA) in November 2012 on a range of issues including measures to reduce carbon emissions from freight.
I met with UPS in January 2013 and discussed the use of biomethane as an alternative fuel for HGVs.
In February 2013 I attended the Department's annual “Listening to Industry” event hosted jointly with the FTA and attended by over 100 representatives from the freight industry where many issues, including the Department's approach to alternative fuels, were raised.
Officials are in regular contact with a range of representatives of the road freight industry on the use of dual fuel trucks to reduce carbon emissions.
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