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Fuelling the future: motive power and connectivity

Inquiry

The Committee is examining how Government fuel policy will affect connectivity, capacity and sustainability across all transport modes, including motor vehicles, maritime, rail and aviation, up to 2050.

We are particularly interested in receiving written evidence that addresses:

  1. The effect of Government fuel policy on future road, rail, air and maritime connectivity;
  2. Whether and how the Government is ‘technology neutral’ in its regulation and assessment of alternative fuels, and how its policies on alternative fuels influence investment, research, development and production;
  3. The infrastructure required to develop, produce, store and dispense alternative fuels;
  4. Steps that the Government could take to maximise the utility of the UK’s existing transport stock, while meeting its climate-change commitments; and
  5. The contribution that alternative fuels could make to sustainability, transport decarbonisation and connectivity.

This inquiry is no longer accepting evidence

The deadline for submissions was Friday 21 January 2022.

Reports, special reports and government responses

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Third Report - Fuelling the future: motive power and connectivity
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Response to this report
Fourth Special Report - Fuelling the future: motive power and connectivity: Government response to the Committee’s Third Report
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Fourth Special Report - Fuelling the future: motive power and connectivity: Government response to the Committee’s Third Report
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Correspondence

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Correspondence from the Secretary of State for Transport, relating to publication of Government response to Committee's report on Fuelling the future, dated 30 June 2023
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Correspondence from the Chair to the Secretary of State for Transport, relating to the Government response to Fuelling the future, the Committee's Third Report of Session 2022-23, dated 15 June 2023
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Correspondence from Trudy Harrison MP, Minister of State, Department for Transport, relating to Great British Railways, dated 29 March 2022
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Oral evidence transcripts

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16 March 2022
Inquiry Fuelling the future: motive power and connectivity
Witnesses Department for Transport, and Department for Transport
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2 March 2022
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Witnesses Rail Freight Group, and Porterbrook
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2 March 2022
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Witnesses Historic and Classic Vehicles Alliance, and Electromobility UK
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Written evidence

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Velocys (FTF0071)
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UK Chamber of Shipping (FTF0070)
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Prodrive (FTF0067)
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