Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what plans he has to reduce carbon emissions from the aviation industry.

The Government has recently consulted on its proposed approach to reach net zero aviation – or Jet Zero - by 2050. The responses are now being analysed to inform our final Jet Zero Strategy which we aim to publish early in 2022.

This consultation proposes principles and policies to reach net zero aviation by:

o improving the efficiency of the UK’s current aviation system

o accelerating the development and deployment of sustainable aviation fuels

o supporting the development of zero-emission flight

o ensuring we use markets to drive down emissions in the most cost -effective way

To help achieve our ambitions, in July 2020, we established the Jet Zero Council to drive the delivery of new technologies and innovative ways to cut aviation emissions. Its aim is to deliver zero emission transatlantic flight within a generation.

The Government’s Net Zero Strategy published on 19 October confirms our commitment to Jet Zero, kick-starting commercialisation of UK sustainable aviation fuels (SAF) with £180 million funding for SAF demonstration plants, a key step to delivering our ambition for 10% of aviation fuels to be SAF by 2030.