UK Automotive Sector: DRIVE35 - 30th June 2025

Here are the climate-related sections of speeches by MPs during the Commons debate UK Automotive Sector: DRIVE35.

Full text: https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2025-06-30/debates/25063038000010/UKAutomotiveSectorDRIVE35

Sarah Jones (Labour)

Building on the successes of the automotive transformation fund and Advanced Propulsion Centre R&D programmes, this programme will support the latest research and development, accelerate commercial scale-up, and unlock capital investment in zero emission vehicles, batteries and the wider supply chain. It will ensure continuity in Government support while transitioning to a new funding offer for investors that is much simpler, clearer and faster. The new programme will work alongside the national wealth fund, as part of a comprehensive offer to attract strategic investments.

“That this House authorises the Secretary of State to undertake, during the period beginning with the date of approval of this motion and ending on 31 July 2030, to pay, by way of financial assistance under section 8 of the Industrial Development Act 1982, grants to businesses as part of His Majesty’s Government’s project to support zero-emission vehicle manufacturing in the UK and the UK’s automotive supply chain, including to support the creation of jobs, private investment into the UK, the development of the automotive industry and emission reductions, up to an overall limit of £1 billion, and to pay during or after that period the grants that are undertaken to be paid.”

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