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HANSARDSustainable Aviation Fuel Bill (Second sitting)Q That is a very fair answer. On the cost basis, the Government have said that the end-user cost—as opposed to the cost to the airline or the producer—of buying a plane ticket is…15 Jul 2025HANSARDSustainable Aviation Fuel Bill (First sitting)Q Good morning to both of you. You are both bringing different technologies to SAF production. Ms Haywood, your SAF is more bioethanol based, and Mr Al Adhami, yours is more waste…15 Jul 2025HANSARDSustainable Aviation Fuel Bill (Second sitting)Q It does. I have one brief additional question, mindful that we have only 20 minutes with you. Off the back of that protection of UK IP, do you think the Bill could be…15 Jul 2025HANSARDSustainable Aviation Fuel Bill (Second sitting)Q Can I gently push you on that? We heard from the witness from Zero Petroleum earlier that they are ready to scale now, in reference to a question from one of the Liberal…15 Jul 2025HANSARDSustainable Aviation Fuel Bill (Second sitting)Q Good afternoon, Mr New. Fast-forwarding from your review to where we are today, is there anything that you wanted to see, that you recommended or that you found in that review,…15 Jul 2025HANSARDSustainable Aviation Fuel Bill (Second sitting)Q That is very helpful. As you raised, for example, the black bin waste stream, it strikes me that looking across the differing technologies to produce SAF, the waste-derived ones…15 Jul 2025HANSARDSustainable Aviation Fuel Bill (Second sitting)Q Good afternoon. Does the Bill get that balance right? Will it increase UK production of SAF to the point that we have domestic fuel security, or is there a better way of…15 Jul 2025HANSARDSustainable Aviation Fuel Bill (First sitting)Q That is very helpful. Before we move on to the next witness, may I probe two elements of what you said? On your last point about costs ultimately being passed to the consumer,…15 Jul 2025HANSARDSustainable Aviation Fuel Bill (Second sitting)Q That is very helpful. You may have heard me ask previous witnesses about the cost to the end user. The Government’s analysis is that it would end up being plus or minus £1.50 on…15 Jul 2025HANSARDSustainable Aviation Fuel Bill (Second sitting)Q But it is the mandate that tells them they have to use it. The Bill is about domestic SAF production. Geoff Maynard: But production is important. You could have a situation in…15 Jul 2025HANSARDSustainable Aviation Fuel Bill (Second sitting)Q Where does your organisation see the price of SAF going in the medium and long term? In theory, if the Bill works, SAF production in the United Kingdom will increase…15 Jul 2025HANSARDSustainable Aviation Fuel Bill (Second sitting)Q It is always good to get an academic perspective on these matters. We can get locked into all sorts of technical discussions and lose the bigger picture. From your work in the…15 Jul 2025HANSARDSustainable Aviation Fuel Bill (First sitting)Q Good morning, witnesses. From the Second Reading debate and most of the written evidence that we have seen, we know that there is a fair amount of consensus on the price…15 Jul 2025HANSARDSustainable Aviation Fuel Bill (First sitting)Q If I can probe that a little more, you say £1.50 is a conservative estimate. Does IAG have its own estimate? Jonathon Counsell: No. We have not at this stage managed to fully…15 Jul 2025HANSARDSustainable Aviation Fuel Bill (First sitting)Q Good morning to our witnesses. It is impossible to consider the Bill without also considering the mandate, side by side. What impact do you feel the Bill will have not just on…15 Jul 2025HANSARDSustainable Aviation Fuel Bill (Second sitting)Q That is very helpful. On one last point of clarity, when you talk about the long term for e-fuels, we can all put a different definition on “long term”. What do you mean by…15 Jul 2025HANSARDSustainable Aviation Fuel Bill (First sitting)I made this declaration on Second Reading as well; I do not think it is strictly relevant, but I wish to be very transparent: I got a donation of sustainable fuel, to use in a…15 Jul 2025HANSARDSustainable Aviation Fuel Bill (Second sitting)Q Building on those last two questions, in terms of the investment landscape in the UK for technology, and for SAF in particular, we are in an emerging technological race where,…15 Jul 2025HANSARDSustainable Aviation Fuel Bill (Second sitting)Q That is helpful, but on this particular point about UK-based production, a global company like Shell—there is nothing wrong with this position; it is what you do—will source SAF…15 Jul 2025HANSARDSustainable Aviation Fuel Bill (Second sitting)Q If the Bill becomes an Act, Shell will find itself in a peculiar place given that it will be both a levy payer, as a fossil fuel producer, and a developer of SAF potentially…15 Jul 2025