Speeches by Kane.

“It will not necessarily be sold on the international market. That will be a decision for the counterparty when leasing the contracts to the SAF companies. I hope it will be because I want us to be a world leader in selling this and be export-driven, but that is not guaranteed.”

“As part of the ANPS, we will produce the data that underpins those claims.”

“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.”

“First, AIG said at an evidence committee yesterday that something like 17% of the world’s SAF is already used in the UK. We can be incredibly proud of that. Airlines are telling us that they are able to commit to the 2%. Some are using more at the moment. The key to this is that this mandate ramps up, as you said, over…”

“Thank you very much for giving us this opportunity today. It was a great honour to be asked to be the Aviation, Maritime and Security Minister. We had a lot to do. We had two key manifesto commitments at the general election. One was to do with airspace modernisation. Our airspace is analogue in a digital age. We can i…”

“Do you mean Newcastle, Northern Ireland?”

“What is interesting in the revenue certainty mechanism, when we talked about first, second and third generation, and the HEFAs and the waste that we will make the SAF off, is that, when that waste becomes valuable, is it waste anymore? That was quite an enlightening piece of work that the evidence committee brought for…”

“I am more of a Cobden fan. I would like to see it sold across the world. Free trade is fair trade.”

“I am Mike Kane. I am the Minister for Aviation, Maritime and Security. I will allow my officials to introduce themselves.”

“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.”

“I was nowhere near saying that. There has been nothing sclerotic about my first year in this office.”

“The airports are doing a great job. I mentioned the 3 million tonnes that Heathrow wants to take out over the next five years through its terminal reconfiguration. We are seeing airports build solar farms, particularly at Newcastle and Birmingham, which is leading them to become net zero very quickly. In terms of aviat…”

“I think the question relates to the non-CO2 part of emissions.”

“In my local airport, when planes fly off-piste and create noise, they have to pay into a compensation package, which is used by community groups to spend on local projects. In terms of where that policy from a decade ago is up to, I will refer to David, if that is all right.”

“I was nowhere near saying that. There has been nothing sclerotic about my first year in this office.”

“We would expect to see growth straightaway. Heathrow announced last week a £10 billion package over the next five years to improve its terminals and reduce its carbon footprint. It signed a deal with the Scunthorpe Steelworks. The steel for its new landing bays will be sourced from the UK. Some 60% of that £10 billion …”

“Which particular tax do you mean?”

“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…”

“What do you mean by “efficiency”?”

“I will say directly to the Member for Shrewsbury that I have the science budget for the DFT, which runs at something like—it is a lot of money—£973 million. I think that is the exact figure. I am not sure there is enough research into that. Scientists are beginning to tell us there is other evidence about warming from …”