Speeches by Kane.

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

“No.”

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

“When did they say it last?”

“No, we will lay out our concerns to the CCC in the normal ways.”

“I am all for a preferential option for people, particularly in Ireland, who cannot access the rest of the UK. Those three key airports, one in Derry/Londonderry and two in Belfast, have a future ahead of them because so many people like yourself come here to work. That has to be critical. The suite of measures, as I ha…”

“I would say to the honourable Member that I am acutely aware, because of the nature of Ireland, of differential APD policy and the difficulties that it causes. Our principle is that the taxpayer should not clean up this industry. It has to be the industry that does it on the basis of the polluter-pays principle. That u…”

“That is a great suggestion, and I will take that away. Can I just give him my personal commitment, as he knows, that regional airports benefit from any expansion of Heathrow, either through its terminal capacity and the £10 billion that it is spending over the next five years, or if we get a promoter coming back with a…”

“As I was not involved with the ANPS in 2018, I will ask my officials here to answer directly.”

“I would say that this country should have been making some decisions a long time ago about the future of this industry, and they did not happen. All Governments become sclerotic at times. There is an old adage that, if I was going there, I would not be starting from here, but this is what we are faced with in terms of …”

“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 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.”

“There will be a more detailed breakdown from the CAA, which we can get if needs be. How airports work is that, for every passenger who goes through their doors, there is a cost to that. I think it is £33.26 at Heathrow. That is how they make their money. Every month or every quarter, the CAA publishes the figures that …”

“We are talking at the moment to the Minister, Chris Bryant. We are joining up some work streams around inward-bound tourism, and some of the work streams that I have from my jet zero and aviation work streams, to make sure that we marry that up across Government and get the biggest bang for the buck of tourist pounds, …”

“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…”

“The mechanisms that we are introducing are through the revenue certainty mechanisms. The counterparty, which will be a Government arm’s length organisation, will be inviting bids for those SAF manufacturers to upscale their production in the UK to meet the mandate that we have already introduced.”

“We are joining up our work with Chris Bryant, the tourism Minister, to look at this, and we have a stream of work checking on this. I do not have any figures for you here today.”

“You are right. The dial is moving to the right on carbon. That is because we have not had a Government that have been making some of the decisions that have needed to be made for quite some time. I am hopeful now that we do have a Government and a strategy that will bring that carbon target back to the centre, so that …”

“I would say that surface access transport does not lie with me, but it is absolutely critical to decarbonising aviation. We know that markets that airports can penetrate depend on our public transport penetration to the airport. We live 30 miles apart. I have to make that journey on Monday morning to visit Sheffield Un…”