The Government have made a number of commitments towards the environment. I asked the Aviation Minister how the Government will ensure that any plans that come forward are in line with their environmental commitments.

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Toby Perkins: Thank you very much indeed, Madam Deputy Speaker. I am grateful to my Hon Friend for repeating what we heard at the Environmental Audit Committee from the Secretary of State fir DESNZ (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero) yesterday that no plans will be approved unless they are in line with the Government’s environmental commitments.

 

Now, my Hon. Friend can’t comment on Gatwick and Luton because they have a live DCO in and he can’t comment on Heathrow because they haven’t got a live DCO in, which is kind of handy. So, let me ask him about something he can comment on, which is about what those changes that we are going to make in order to ensure that any plans that come forward for airport expansion are in line with our environmental commitments. Can he explain more about what the offsets are going to be to ensure the Government is able to meet those commitments that he’s confirmed they are going to do?

 

Minister: Well, I thank my Hon. Friend and tank him for his Chairmanship of the Environmental Audit Committee, which I was a proud member of many years looking at circular economy that this government now is taking forward. The Government has committed to delivering greener transport, including through SAF, through airspace modernisation, for the other measures that I have laid out earlier but that is a range of measures that I am very proud of my Front Bench Team across our Department  we are decarbonising the transport sector further and faster in the first 6 months of this government than in 14 years of the last.

 

WATCH – The Government have made a number of commitments towards the environment. I asked the Aviation Minister how the Government will ensure that any plans that come forward are in line with their environmental Commitments.

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