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HANSARDSustainable Aviation Fuel Bill (Second sitting)Q This is my final question before we get to go through the Bill in detail on Thursday and next Tuesday. Accepting the agnostic position, has anything you have heard today from…15 Jul 2025HANSARDSustainable Aviation Fuel Bill (Second sitting)Q Good afternoon, Mr Gorman. I will lead with the question that I asked the previous witness about end-user cost. Clearly, Heathrow’s business model relies on you having many…15 Jul 2025HANSARDSustainable Aviation Fuel Bill (Second sitting)Q In respect of procurement of SAF to be available at the airport, will the Bill safeguard domestic fuel security? I ask that question largely through the lens of the challenge to…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 (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 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 (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 Minister, no doubt we will be able to go through much of this on Thursday and next Tuesday, but a central feature of the debate on Second Reading was the ultimate impact on…15 Jul 2025HANSARDSustainable Aviation Fuel Bill (Second sitting)Q Good afternoon. You have talked about the sourcing of aviation fuel and blending SAF as well as fossil fuel for aviation. Shell is clearly a global company, but the Bill’s…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 2025HANSARDFinancial Assistance to IndustryIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Desmond. I begin by drawing the Committee’s attention to my entry in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests. I have…14 Jul 2025HANSARDFinancial Assistance to IndustryMy right hon. Friend is absolutely right. If we look at the marketplace out there for both private and commercial vehicles—particularly vans, heavy goods vehicles and larger…14 Jul 2025HANSARD UK-France Nuclear PartnershipThe two bedrocks of our national defence are our own sovereign capability and our membership of NATO. The United Kingdom and France are both members of NATO, but, as the shadow…10 Jul 2025HANSARDNeighbourhood Plans: Planning DecisionsIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Ms McVey. I thank and congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Hinckley and Bosworth (Dr Evans) on securing this debate, which…09 Jul 2025HANSARD NHS 10-Year PlanI look forward to studying the detail of this plan, but I welcome the Secretary of State’s commitment to neighbourhood health centres and likewise his commitment in a previous…03 Jul 2025HANSARD WhistleblowersThe hon. Lady clearly has a great deal of experience as a solicitor before her election to this place. I am not trying to make the case that everything is as it should be—in fact,…02 Jul 2025HANSARD WhistleblowersIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Turner. I congratulate the hon. Member for South Dorset (Lloyd Hatton) on securing this important debate. We have had a short…02 Jul 2025HANSARD WhistleblowersI am grateful for the hon. Lady’s correction. This House would be a far better place if everyone corrected their errors in a much timelier manner. We all make mistakes, and it is…02 Jul 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsA recent freedom of information request has revealed that, for a number of schemes, HMRC has settled with large corporations for just 15% of what was owed. With the loan charge…01 Jul 2025HANSARDDraft Subsidy Control (Subsidies and Schemes of Interest or Particular Interest) (Amendment) Regulations 2025It is a pleasure to see you in the Chair and to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Turner, and an enormous pleasure on this hot day to speak on the draft Subsidy Control (Subsidies…01 Jul 2025