Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the implications of the Climate Change Committee’s recommendations in their report published on 29 June 2022, for the Jet Zero Strategy.

We will consider recommendations from the Climate Change Committee’s June 2022 progress report in further detail as we finalise and implement our Jet Zero Strategy.

Ministers and officials regularly meet with members of the CCC and considered recommendations from their June 2021 progress report in the development of the Jet Zero Consultation which was published in July 2021 and considered all available evidence for the development of the Jet Zero Strategy, which we are aiming to publish later this year.

As a responsible government, we recognise that we will need to keep our strategy under review and therefore, intend to regularly assess the progress of aviation’s emissions reductions and update our strategy where necessary through five-year reviews.

Our ambition is to decarbonise aviation in a way that preserves the benefits of air travel.