Found: The Government-commissioned Net Zero review by Chris Skidmore MP, published in January 2023, sets out

Found: in the Environmental Audit Committee’s Report on a UK carbon border approach (April 2022), Chris Skidmore

Found: We are also responding to the Independent Review of Net Zero , led by Chris Skidmore, and partly or

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he plans to implement the proposals on public transport within the report entitled Mission Zero: Independent Review of Net Zero, published on 26 September 2022.

Answered by Jesse Norman - Shadow Leader of the House of Commons

The Department acknowledged the role that helping passengers to choose public transport will have in the decarbonisation of the sector in March 2023’s Powering Up Britain: Net Zero Growth Plan and thanks Chris Skidmore MP for his detailed review of reducing transport emissions in Mission Zero: Independent Review of Net Zero.

The Department outlined a model for improving and increasing demand for public transport in the National Bus Strategy for England and Plan for Rail and are delivering on its ambitions, including investing £360 million in fares, ticketing and retailing for rail. The Department remains committed to supporting the introduction of 4,000 zero emission buses and a zero-emission bus fleet, with approximately 3,400 zero emission buses funded to date across the UK.

The Government has provided over £2 billion in emergency and recovery funding since March 2020 to mitigate the impacts of the pandemic and protect vital bus routes and is also investing over £1 billion to support improvements to bus services through local Bus Service Improvement Plans.

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will make an assessment of the implications for his policies of the proposals on public transport within the report entitled Mission Zero: Independent Review of Net Zero, published on 26 September 2022.

Answered by Jesse Norman - Shadow Leader of the House of Commons

The Department acknowledged the role that helping passengers to choose public transport will have in the decarbonisation of the sector in March 2023’s Powering Up Britain: Net Zero Growth Plan and thanks Chris Skidmore MP for his detailed review of reducing transport emissions in Mission Zero: Independent Review of Net Zero.

The Department outlined a model for improving and increasing demand for public transport in the National Bus Strategy for England and Plan for Rail and are delivering on its ambitions, including investing £360 million in fares, ticketing and retailing for rail. The Department remains committed to supporting the introduction of 4,000 zero emission buses and a zero-emission bus fleet, with approximately 3,400 zero emission buses funded to date across the UK.

The Government has provided over £2 billion in emergency and recovery funding since March 2020 to mitigate the impacts of the pandemic and protect vital bus routes and is also investing over £1 billion to support improvements to bus services through local Bus Service Improvement Plans.

Found: in response to recommendations made in the Independent Review of Net Zero, led by the Rt H on Chris Skidmore

Found: Net Zero report , the outcome of the independent review into net zero, chaired by the Rt Hon Chris Skidmore

Found: electricity storage will be “essential for achieving net zero” yet the recent Review of Net Zero by Chris Skidmore

Found: Michael Cecil • NI Depart ment for Infrastructure, Catherine McEvoy Other • The Rt Hon Chris Skidmore

Found: The BEIS Secretary of State , Chris Skidmore (at that time) commissioned a review to ensure that delivering

Found: • This includes Chris Skidmore ’s Net Zero R eview, Tim Pick ’s report on Accelerating Offshore

Found: The review by Tory MP Chris Skidmore, commissioned by the UK Government, calls on the industry to electrify

Found: • We agree with Chris Skidmore ’s call for a net zero duty for Ofgem .

Found: Deputy Leader of the House of Commons Legislative programme2017-03-27 00:00:00Meeting / with MPMr Chris Skidmore

Found: copying this letter to the Minister of State for Universities, Science, Research and Innovation, Chris Skidmore

Found: Mr Wheelhouse advised that he has written to the BIES Minister of State, Chris Skidmore, to request clarity

Found: Environment, Energy & Rural Affairs, Welsh Government, Lesley Griffiths, and Minister of State, BEIS, Chris Skidmore