Speeches by Buckley.

“I mean also at a local council level. Do you and Gatwick share best practice with each other? You are in a similar situation with managing a very large local airport and that impact on your communities. Is there any kind of network for councils that are affected by international airports where you can learn together, “…”

“This Committee would be most interested in agricultural waste residue. I have also been contacted by groups talking about sewage sludge, which I know causes concern for us around pollution in water. If there is a use for some of these waste products, as a Committee, we would be interested to hear more about that.”

“You are saying “given a voice”, but earlier in the process is what I am hearing.”

“Of course it does. You touched on people’s homes in terms of the physical infrastructure. Going back to the air quality and noise pollution, you must have your own air quality plans, so presumably you are now having to reassess how you can deliver those quality levels.”

“That is really helpful, thank you. Touching on your role from a local council perspective, do you feel that there currently is sufficient engagement with local communities through the development consent order system?”

“We will definitely be feeding that back given the scale of the impact. I am sure you have seen on the agenda that the Minister is coming to follow you, so please hold on.”

“That sounds like a really useful recommendation for us to consider when we are compiling our report. You also touched on the fact that elsewhere you said planning needs to end up air quality neutral for new developments. Are you suggesting that there is an exemption in this case and that that should not be the case? Is…”

“It is mitigation rather than exemption and perhaps using the noise pollution as an example or template that could be applied to AQ.”

“Yes, it is your chance to have a chat. My final question is, as this process develops, whether you anticipate perhaps compensation for your borough. How do you imagine that playing out?”

“We heard about commodities and the concern about the raw materials that we need to make this SAF. I know Barry Gardiner touched on power-to-liquid, which is a future-generation version of SAF. What about the earlier versions, the current generation and the next one? What sorts of raw materials do we expect to rely on t…”

“Good morning. Mr Thynne, how are local environmental impacts accounted for, including air and noise pollution?”

“Yes.”

“I thank my hon. Friend for this excellent debate. Does she agree that colleges like mine in Shrewsbury have achieved their “outstanding” status because of the breadth of training and qualifications that they offer across a wide rural area? Do the Minister and the Department need to recognise those twin challenges? One …”

“Q My second question is about your role at Heathrow. We heard from earlier witnesses that, because the generation fuels are drop-in fuels, they are fairly confident that they could rely on existing infrastructure for storage and so on. As the person in charge of Heathrow, our largest airport, how confident are you that…”

“Q So it would be significantly more difficult for you without the Bill? Matt Gorman: It would be much more difficult to produce in the UK; all the investors and fuel suppliers we talk to say so. There are huge advantages in doing that—for jobs, growth and energy security, as well as for decarbonisation .”

“Q I have two questions. The first relates to your role on the board of Sustainable Aviation. You referred earlier to the key part the Bill plays in decarbonisation and reaching net zero. On behalf of that board, from the wider sector perspective, do you think that it is possible to reach net zero by 2050 without the Bi…”

“Which of the sanitary and phytosanitary and agrifood requirements does the Secretary of State expect to be removed on goods moving from Great Britain to Northern Ireland as a result of the SPS agreement with the EU?”

“7. What assessment he has made of the potential impact of the UK-EU trade agreement announced on 19 May 2025 on the economy in Northern Ireland.”

“You just mentioned the reuse of existing buildings and turning them into different end uses. What sort of proportion of those 1.5 million homes could be brought about that way?”

“I was going to ask you about potential incentives. It sounds like you have the strategic ambitions and you can see the carbon value of the refit, but how do we incentivise the developers? You have touched on development finance; are there any other incentives out there for developers to get them to consider retrofittin…”