Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation Debate
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Baroness Walmsley
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Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation
Baroness Walmsley Excerpts(1 year, 7 months ago)
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Baroness Walmsley
To ask His Majesty’s Government when they intend next to review the renewable transport fuel obligation.
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department for Transport (Baroness Vere of Norbiton) (Con)
My Lords, the department continually keeps the renewable transport fuel obligation under review to ensure that it delivers cost-effective emission reductions and is best placed to meet our carbon targets.
Baroness Walmsley (LD)
I thank the Minister for her information, but at the last estimate over 107,000 hectares of land in the UK grew crops for biofuels—land that could have fed 3.5 million people. First, given the pressure on land, the need for greater UK food security and the global shortage of cereal crops caused by the war in Ukraine, will the Government end biofuel production from food crops in the UK? Secondly, on imported biofuels, will the Government ensure that only biofuels produced from waste, agricultural or otherwise, are imported for use in the UK?