Parliamentary activity, resources and Government reports

What is a Westminster Hall debate?

Westminster Hall debates give MPs an opportunity to raise local or national issues and receive a response from a government minister. 

How Parliament works: Westminster Hall debates.

The debates would normally take place in the Grand Committee Room – just off Parliament’s historic Westminster Hall - but have been temporarily relocated due to Coronavirus restrictions since 14 January. They now take place in the more modern Boothroyd Room in Portcullis House.

The temporary move will allow up to 20 MPs to participate in any one debate physically and virtually combined. See our news story for further information: Westminster Hall debates: MPs to participate virtually and in person.

House of Commons Library research briefings

• Climate change: an overview (27 May 2021)

• Differing approaches to reaching Net Zero: pathways and timing (29 April 2021)

• Aviation, decarbonisation and climate change (12 February 2021)

• Electric vehicles and infrastructure (4 December 2020)

• Work of the Jet Zero Council (7 October 2020)

• Net zero targets and decarbonising transport (31 January 2020)

Oral questions

• Marco Longhi MP: Transport Infrastructure Project (11 March 2021)

• Kim Johnson MP: Green Investment and Public Transport (14 April 2021)

• Mick Whitley MP: Transport Decarbonisation Plan (29 April 2021)

• Deidre Brock MP: Transport Decarbonisation (11 March 2021)

• Alan Brown MP: Transport Decarbonisation (28 January 2021)  

Written questions

• Mike Kane MP: Aviation: Fuels (21 May 2021)

• Richard Thomson MP: Carbon Capture and Storage and Hydrogen: Scotland (24 May 2021)

• Kate Griffiths MP: Public Transport: Carbon Emissions (24 May 2021)

• Imran Ahmad Khan MP: Transport: Exhaust Emissions (25 May 2021)

Statements

• Grant Shapps MP (Secretary of State for Transport) Local Transport Update (7 June 2021)

• Grant Shapps MP (Secretary of State for Transport) Future of Britain’s Railways (20 May 2021)

• Rachel Maclean MP (Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Transport) Draft Legislation: The Motor Fuel (Composition and Content) and the Biofuel (Labelling) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2021 (13 May 2021)

Committee reports

• From 11% to 100% zero emission cars in 14 years: Government lacks plan for “huge challenge” of social and economic transition, House of Commons Public Accounts Select Committee, 19 May 2021

• Trains fit for the future? House of Commons Transport Select Committee, 23 March 2021

• Zero emission vehicles and road pricing, House of Commons Transport Select Committee, 2021

UK Government (2020-2021)

• Green motoring milestone with half-a-million ultra low emission vehicles now on UK roads, DfT, 5 May 2021

• UK enshrines new target in law to slash emissions by 78% by 2035, DBEIS, 10 April 2021

• Outcome and response to the ending the sale of new petrol, diesel and hybrid cars and vans, DfT, 10 March 2021

• Creating the transport decarbonisation plan, DfT, March 2020

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