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	answer has question	zu5nJUSA
	answer has answering person	Nusrat Munir Ul-Ghani
	answer text	<p>The Government has put in place a comprehensive R&D and capital investment programme to support the UK automotive sectors successful transition to electric vehicles.</p><p>We have jointly committed with industry, more than £1.3 billion through the Advanced Propulsion Centre, to accelerate the commercialisation of strategically important vehicle technologies.</p><p>In 2021, the Net Zero Strategy announced £350m of funding for the Automotive Transformation Fund. This funding is additional to the £500m announced in 2020 as part of the 10 Point Plan and is key to the UK building an internationally competitive electric vehicle supply chain.</p><p>The automotive sector is also benefiting from £541m funding from the UKRI cross-sector Faraday Battery Challenge and £80m from the Driving the Electric Revolution programmes, which is focussed on electric motors, drives and power electronics.</p>
	answer given date	2023-03-06
	answer has answering body	Department for Business and Trade
	written answer has answering body	Department for Business and Trade
Department for Business and Trade	answering body has written answer	4hL66cnt
Department for Business and Trade	answering body has answer	4hL66cnt
zu5nJUSA	question has answer	4hL66cnt
Nusrat Munir Ul-Ghani	answering person has answer	4hL66cnt