Department for Transport

Department for Transport document places signals push to reduce private car use and promises draft net zero aviation strategy in 2020

Think tanks Common Wealth and IPPR issue joint report calling for any airline bailout to include strict climate targets

Government also seeks views on 'biggest shake up of transport laws in a generation' to harness emerging green transport technologies such as electric scooters

Plans to create four new R&D centres focused on electric cars, planes and shipping announced alongside proposals to roll out E10 petrol

Farming, Fisheries and Food Minister wins promotion to top job at Defra where he will be responsible for delivering government's post-Brexit environmental and agriculture legislation

Prime Minister concedes costs have spiralled but argues 'poor management has not detracted from the fundamental value of the project'

National Grid's Graeme Cooper argues that if the government is to deliver on its electric transport vision it needs to take steps to end the charging network's 'postcode lottery'

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