Question follow-through · 122273

Electric Vehicles: Hire Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent estimate she has made of the proportion of electric vehicles in short-term hire fleets used by Government departments.

answeredDepartment for Transport

About this written question

A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.

Answering body
Department for Transport
Tabled
19 Mar 2026
Target answer date
24 Mar 2026
Answer
25 Mar 2026 · 6 calendar days after tabling

Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.

More questions by this MP on Transport

Shared topic keywords suggest a connection; they do not establish a follow-up.

Votes on this topic

These Commons divisions share a topic label. The question did not necessarily lead to a vote.

Recorded timeline

  1. 19 Mar 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent estimate she has made of the proportion of electric vehicles in short-term hire fleets used by Government departments.

  2. 24 Mar 2026

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 25 Mar 2026

    Answer published

    Data on vehicles used by Government departments are collected as part of the Government Fleet Commitment. This includes vehicles hired for 6 days or more. The Government Fleet Commitment data are fed into the Greening Government Commitments, and the most ...

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

Later records

Possible follow-up questions

Strong links require the same MP, department and exact heading. Other same-department questions are shown as unreviewed candidates, not as confirmed follow-ups. No debate link is asserted unless a stable source relationship exists.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

DfT Operator: Finance

23 Mar 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 19 March 2026 to Question 120878, whether those efficiencies will contribute to a reduction in the rail passenger services subsidy in 2026–27.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

DfT Operator

23 Mar 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 23 March 2026 to Question 120647, what estimate she has made of the net saving once the costs of expanding DfT Operator Limited, including staffing and administrative overheads, are ac

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Large Goods Vehicles and Vans: Carbon Emissions

25 Mar 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what average grant value per vehicle has been assumed in modelling the Zero Emission Truck and Van funding package.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Driving Tests: Recruitment

10 Apr 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 25 March 2026 to Question 122526, what data limitations prevent the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency from tracking the conversion of recruitment campaign click-throughs into complet

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Driving Tests: Recruitment

10 Apr 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 25 March 2026 to Question 122543, what assessment the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency has made of the adequacy of conversion rates from application to appointment for driving exami

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Electric Vehicles: Charging Points

10 Apr 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps she is taking with the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero to improve the (a) accessibility and (b) affordability of at home EV charging.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Roads: Repairs and Maintenance

10 Apr 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what support is available to businesses affected by disruption arising from maintenance works on the strategic road network.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Department for Transport: British Virgin Islands

14 Apr 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the flights listed to the British Virgin Islands in WPQ 120039, a) what the purpose was of each such visit; b) which Ministers or senior officials approved each visit; c) how many officials tr

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

East West Rail Line

14 Apr 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 25 March 2026 to Question 122594, when she expects trains for the first EWR services between Oxford and Milton Keynes to have been sufficiently fully tested for passenger services to c

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Driving Tests

16 Apr 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many (a) short-notice and (b) late cancellations of driving tests there have been since 4 July 2024; what proportion of available test slots were unused in each month; and what the overall utilisation rate

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Driving Tests: East Midlands

21 Apr 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent assessment her Department has made of the adequacy of driving test appointment capacity in (a) Leicester, (b) Leicestershire and (c) the East Midlands; and what steps she is taking to reduce waiting

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Department for Transport: Nigeria

23 Apr 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the answer of 24 March 2026 to WPQ 120039, what the purpose was of each flight to Nigeria; which Ministers and senior officials approved each visit; how many officials travelled on each occasion and