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If one turns to that Act in its current amended version, what one sees is that renewable transport fuel could include biofuel—and here I rather regret that the noble Baroness, Lady Jones of Moulsecoomb, is not here, because her comments about deforestation would have fitted in very well at this point—blended biofuel; any solid, liquid or gaseous fuel other than fossil fuel or nuclear fuel produced wholly by energy from a renewable source, or wholly by a process powered wholly by such energy; and any fuel designated by an RTF order as renewable transport fuel. This an astonishingly wide list and, as I read it, could include HEFA. The approach I have taken in my amendment is to try to work out what the Government intend to do from this very wide list by, so to speak, knocking out the options. I am saying, “Knock out HEFA”. What happens if you knock out HEFA? What do the Government say to that? The noble Lord, Lord Ravensdale, says, “Knock out biofuels, and see what the Government say to that”.