Member

When Petroineos chose to close the more than a century old Grangemouth oil refinery last year, it caused many fuel security concerns in my community and across Scotland—distinctly that there was no native jet fuel production in Scotland for our aviation sector. The Government should urgently assess the utility of the industrial complex at Grangemouth. That ambition would be supported by the Prime Minister’s £200 million National Wealth Fund commitment to our community and Project Willow’s identification of two SAF projects. I lobbied for and welcomed that commitment from the Prime Minister over 12 months ago, and it has crowded in substantial private investor interest, but it must start being converted into real industrial projects at Grangemouth. We have the public commitment, and we have the incentives for private investment. We must seek to expedite interest and investment in SAF production at Grangemouth.