Grant Shapps

One council in England could secure up to £50m to switch all their local buses to run on batteries by 2025 through a new government competition

Further investments have been announced in the Tyne and Wear Metro and Middlesborough train station, while the government's Bus Open Data Service also went live yesterday

Department for Transport estimates another 3,600 home electric car charging points could be installed under the expanded funding programme

Treasury promises review of Air Passenger Duty will keep in mind the UK's net zero emission climate change commitments

Department for Transport announces support for two plants which aim to produce low carbon road and aviation fuel from waste feedstocks

Government laments 'clear gaps' in EV charge point provision across UK as it urges councils to apply for £5m funding pot

Committee on Climate Change writes to Transport Secretary to reiterate that UK net zero goal for 2050 includes international aviation and shipping emissions

Transport Secretary Grant Shapps tells MPs full London-Birmingham services will not begin until 2031

Shapps questions whether third runway 'stacks up' on financial grounds and promises to take 'really, really close look' at case for expansion

Additional £2.5m of funding announced, as new Transport Secretary Grant Shapps declares that he wants electric cars to be 'normal rather than the exception'