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Hybrid Vehicles: Safety

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she has considered (a) establishing an investigation mechanism and (b) commissioning an independent review into the safety performance of hybrid vehicles.

answeredDepartment for Transport

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Answering body
Department for Transport
Tabled
14 Jan 2026
Target answer date
19 Jan 2026
Answer
23 Jan 2026 · 9 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 14 Jan 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she has considered (a) establishing an investigation mechanism and (b) commissioning an independent review into the safety performance of hybrid vehicles.

  2. 19 Jan 2026

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 23 Jan 2026

    Answer published

    As announced in the recently published Road Safety Strategy, the department will be establishing a data-led Road Safety Investigation Branch to learn lessons from road incidents, by taking a strategic, thematic approach, focusing on patterns of collisions...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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