Member

Turning to the Lords amendments, as became starkly evident over the weekend and earlier this week, industrial security is national security. I previously stated that we must urgently scale up domestic SAF for the resilience of our fuel supply chains. We have world-leading research and development already in the works in the UK, such as with the Lighthouse Green Fuels project on Teesside and Project Speedbird in north Yorkshire. However, we must scale up faster across the country if we are to stimulate a mix of native SAF in production, as the Minister stated is his ambition. The principal challenge raised by investors in the aviation sector is that there is not sufficient natively refined SAF to fulfil the mandate now or the scaling up to 2030. The mechanism will enable its production here, but alongside identifying investors we must identify where it should be produced and at what scale.