Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps his Department will take to reduce the cost of producing sustainable aviation fuel.

The Government will introduce a SAF mandate from 2025 requiring at least 10% of UK aviation fuel to be made from sustainable sources from 2030. The mandate will drive demand for SAF and the Government expects to see costs fall as production scales up. The Government published its second consultation on the detail of the SAF mandate in April 2023.

Alongside this, the Government has also launched the second application window for the £165m Advanced Fuels Fund competition to kick start a UK industry.

Philip New’s report on supporting investment in a UK SAF industry was published in April 2023, together with the Government’s response, and the Government is working with industry to consider options for additional revenue certainty to accelerate the growth of a UK SAF industry.