Written Question·Department for Transport·UIN 28800

Food: Production

Tabled: 4 February 2025

Answered: 12 February 2025

Question

Siân Berry

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will make an assessment of the potential implications for his Department's policies on food production of the report by the Royal Society entitled Net zero aviation fuels: resource requirements and envir

Answer

Mike Kane

The report in question concluded that a significant proportion of the UK’s land would be required for fuel production if crops were used to decarbonise aviation. The UK’s Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) Mandate, which is designed to increase the amount o...

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