Speeches by Kane.

“We will bring forward that evidence once we receive the proposals for a third runway from a promoter and begin to review the ANPS.”

“To finish my point around ETS, we are looking to widen that market with some alignment with the European Union. We also have CORSIA, which will cover international flights in terms of carbon pricing as well. There is a suite of measures that will help us get down to net zero by 2050. I am happy for you to come in, Soni…”

“When we receive the proposals for a third runway, we will then look at the airports national policy statement, which was last reviewed in 2019. It clearly needs updating. It is seven or eight years old. We are in a new era. That is what we will do. We already know that this is 100,000 jobs, improved freight and improve…”

“I can give you data—”

“We already have data. We know that a third runway has the potential impact of creating 100,000 jobs, but for the detail we will go through the—”

“I would not be interested in doing it if it did. Just to reassure you, the Department has two studies in the field currently, which we will report back on if that would be of interest to this Committee, which will report next year. One is the aviation night noise effects survey; the second is the aviation noise attitud…”

“All three of them would be Treasury-based initiatives. They are not matters for the Department for Transport.”

“Here we go. I will invite David to come in.”

“The estimates out there are that there will be 100,000 new jobs through the expansion of Heathrow with a third runway. We would better connect our regions, which is absolutely critical to growth in the UK. We would also massively improve freight because Heathrow—along with East Midlands, but by far and away Heathrow—is…”

“The point about non-CO2 air pollution is really important. This is an area that we do not know enough about. We do not know enough about the warming effects of contrails from our aircraft. That is why we have another study on non-CO2 impacts, which is a research and development programme that we are spending about £29 …”

“In addition to the CBI, the Federation of Small Businesses and the British Chamber of Commerce, which are very clearly for this, our analysis—”

“I am happy to look at what the Climate Change Committee says.”

“We have a clear pathway to net zero by 2050, and we are pursuing it. That is why we have introduced, in this legislative session, airspace modernisation; it is why we are introducing the SAF mandates; it is why we are introducing the revenue certainty mechanism; it is why we have studies in the field to inform what we …”

“We are an evidence-based Government, or we are trying to be. That is why we have put these surveys in the field. We have three now, two on noise and one on non-CO2 tailpipe emissions. That will all be published; that will be open; that will help inform our decisions.”

“We will lay out, as a Department, our response to the Climate Change Committee’s concerns in the near future.”

“I am not sure whether that is extraordinary. This Government have generally had a clear pathway to net zero by 2050, and we are pursuing that.”

“We have asked a promoter to come up with proposals for a third runway by the end of this month. We will then review the airports national policy framework. We will be making changes to the national policy framework. It is already leading to growth because both my Department and particularly Heathrow are scaling up to m…”

“We want to be fully informed on nose and tailpipe emissions, whatever they contain, so that we are fully informed in the decisions that we are making.”

“No.”

“When did they say it last?”