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.”

“There is a pathway to net zero for aviation by 2050. SAF, as I have already said, is 40% of that. In addition to SAF, we have to do other things such as airspace modernisation, which we are also legislating for currently. We have the emissions trading scheme, which is a carbon pricing mechanism.”

“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…”

“They are not claims.”

“It is interesting. I am also the Maritime Minister. We are seeing a huge expansion in the Port of Tyne with a £1 billion investment in the undersea cables for the offshore clean energy mission. If you talk to Matt Beeton, the chief executive there, he will say that is directly linked to Newcastle Airport as well. They …”

“Pricing is different to demand management, Mr Gardiner.”

“The answer to that, simply, is yes. Peel, which owned that particular airport a number of years ago, made a business decision that it did not want to go forward with it. I have been immensely impressed with Oliver Coppard and Ros Jones at Doncaster Council and the effort that they have put in. We have protected the air…”

“I would say to the honourable Member that his colleague, the Member for Strangford, recently had an urgent question on his plane almost being cancelled. Connectivity is a big problem for people from Northern Ireland and the other regions. Those flights coming into Heathrow are sometimes not seen as big money-earners. T…”

“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.”

“We have data to say that a third runway could potentially bring 100,000 jobs to the UK economy. The supply chains have signed deals with Scunthorpe for the steel. We know that 60% of the supply chain is outside the south-east. It is not just beneficial for the south-east of England; it is beneficial for the whole count…”

“I will allow David to come in here, because he is really the expert in how this will proceed once we receive the third runway proposal.”

“We made some decisions about Luton. The Secretary of State overturned the planners’ decision on 3 April. It will go from 19 million passengers to 32 million passengers. Your key question is about noise and air pollution, which is probably going to be a theme for a few minutes of this. Chris, I grew up under the flight …”

“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…”

“When the Chancellor invited proposals for a promoter to come forward with a third runway, we, as a Department and as a Government, said that we would then review the ANPS on receipt of that proposal. There was no commitment, I understand, to an autumn deadline.”

“I am extraordinarily keen to see a successful aviation sector across all of our nations. That means improving the airspace, which I am responsible for, across the whole of the United Kingdom. That means bringing in the revenue certainty mechanism, which I am responsible for across the whole of the United Kingdom. It is…”

“I have read it, Chair.”

“We will lay out our response to the Climate Change Committee later this year.”

“I am not responsible for policy a decade ago. I can tell you that Howard Davies is a fellow fanatical Manchester City fan. That is one fact that I have.”

“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…”

“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.”