Speeches by Kane.

“The airports national policy statement from 2018, which was two Governments ago, made it clear that any proposal—we have not had a proposal come forward—should treat surface access appropriately, and that should be funded by the private sector where possible.”

“The Government are committed to regional airports. I am proudly wearing my “Yes to R2” badge from when we built a second runway at Manchester airport in 2001. The position is quite the opposite of what my hon. Friend describes: under the 2018 airports national policy statement, the number of connections from Heathrow t…”

“As my hon. Friend says, freight is hugely important for growth. That is why the Chancellor recently announced plans to build a new advanced manufacturing and logistics park at East Midlands airport, which will unlock up to £1 billion of investment and 2,000 jobs on the site.”

“This was a policy cooked up by the Valuation Office Agency under His Majesty’s Revenue and Customs by the last Government. We have engaged with airports on this matter and asked them to continue to engage with the Valuation Office Agency.”

“It’s everything.”

“Would I like to rank them? We are just full. Heathrow is full. It is 95%-plus at the moment, and that can be damaging. It means we begin to leak people to a hub elsewhere, taking the pound out of the UK. It means that we cannot get our goods and freight in because it is also the biggest airport. We are full and we need…”

“Even if there wasn’t business growth, there is leisure growth. Even if there wasn’t leisure growth, there is more demand for freight growth. I met recently with most of the major airline freight providers in the UK, and they all had the same issues about getting slots at Heathrow and the pressures that would come in th…”

“We are going to have to review the ANPS. That is what civil servants will do. There is an indicative cost of doing that. I go back to the point that we don’t know what the proposal is going to be, but they have to meet targets that we provided in the last one. I do not have them to hand at the moment. Surface access im…”

“We have not seen what the proposal is.”

“We would expect this to be private sector—”

“I hear about the incinerator a lot. I must get a briefing note on the incinerator.”

“We have not seen a proposal, so I cannot talk about the incinerator and the M25. All I can say is that surface access transport will have to improve to get more passengers to Heathrow, and therefore we expect Heathrow or any related party that comes forward with that to show how they can fund it.”

“As somebody who grew up under the flight path at Manchester, I remember in the ’70s—”

“Thank you. I know you have previous experience in the rail industry. It is helpful. For those of us living in the north, it is not a great connection. Possibly Manchester to London is on a good day, but in Scotland, the north-east, Wales and some parts of the south those connections are not good enough. We cannot just …”

“Undoubtedly. HS1 has been an unparalleled success. HS2 will get to Birmingham. We will see what happens on that. We have capacity constraints on our west coast main line. The French did some of this around carbon emissions, but UK domestic aviation only accounts for about 4% of our emissions. We have to look at other w…”

“You stated that as being slow progress. I say to you in all genuineness: if I was going there, I wouldn’t be starting here—that is the famous line—but this Government have acted at incredible pace. They were elected in July. The mandate was put through Parliament in September, with the 2% coming into force on 1 January…”

“I said that we have got to 2% of the mandate this year, which the new Government have legislated for. I will just check my figures. That rises to 10% by 2030 and 22% by 2040. We are investing £135 million in the advanced fuels fund as well. This new Government have invested £1 billion in the Aerospace Technology Instit…”

“Yesterday, I was in Geneva speaking on the floor of the UN at the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe Inland Transport Committee. We are working right across the globe and showing leadership in this to try to reduce our emissions right across the globe, particularly across the continent, working with our inte…”

“Indeed. Because of maritime, we have the International Maritime Organisation in the UK. In addition to the work on seafarers’ rights that we have already introduced, we are pushing for higher environmental standards in the maritime sector right across the planet at this year’s council about taking out more greenhouse g…”

“Since entering Parliament 11 years ago this week, I have been involved with Sustainable Aviation, and they have developed a clear pathway of what needs to happen within aviation to reduce our emissions. Currently, Chair, there is no way to completely reduce carbon emissions without some form of carbon capture technolog…”