Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate his Department has made of the carbon footprint of all private jets registered in the UK.

DfT recently commissioned independent research to establish a baseline of carbon emissions emitted by the General Aviation (GA) sector, in which private jets are included. The research estimated that GA flights emitted 779kt of carbon emissions per year, based on data from 2019 obtained from the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA). The research estimated that approximately 75% of all GA emissions relate to flights for the purposes of Business Aviation.

The research is available online, at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/decarbonising-general-aviation