§ Mr. HoyleTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions what plans he has to encourage the use of compressed natural gas in Government fleet vehicles. [47414]
§ Ms Glenda JacksonThe Government Car Service announced last year that they would be converting all the cars in their fleet to run on compressed natural gas or liquefied petroleum gas as the cars were replaced. The Government have also taken a number of other steps to encourage the use of road fuel gases more generally, including freezing the duty on these fuels in two 83W successive budgets and providing funding for the Energy Saving's Trust's Powershift programme which aims to create a sustainable market for alternative fuels.