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Departmental Publication (News and Communications)
Department for Transport

Mar. 18 2024

Source Page: The age of the flying taxi draws closer with the Future of Flight action plan
Document: The age of the flying taxi draws closer with the Future of Flight action plan (webpage)

Found: Setting out a roadmap for drones and novel electric aircraft in the UK, the plan details how technology

Lords Chamber
Battery and Hydrogen-powered Aircraft - Thu 30 Nov 2023
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Lord Davies of Gower (Con - Life peer) The development of hydrogen and battery electric aircraft is technically challenging, and the Government - Speech Link
2: Lord Davies of Gower (Con - Life peer) We must reduce emissions from aviation while retaining our ability to fly. - Speech Link
3: Lord Davies of Gower (Con - Life peer) First, the use of battery electric has been proven in small, manned aircraft. - Speech Link
4: Lord Ranger of Northwood (Con - Life peer) My Lords, the House might be getting used to my personal interest in electric mobility, and I want to - Speech Link

Commons Chamber
UK Trade: Aviation - Wed 01 May 2024
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Henry Smith (Con - Crawley) The key technology to decarbonise aviation in the medium term is SAF, or sustainable aviation fuels, - Speech Link
2: Robert Syms (Con - Poole) Post war, we have always punched above our weight in aviation. - Speech Link
3: Alan Mak (Con - Havant) environmental and social benefits that could be unlocked by exciting technologies such as drones and electric - Speech Link

Select Committee
Aerospace Technology Institute
 IPO0029 - Industrial policy

Written Evidence Mar. 05 2024

Inquiry: Industrial policy
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Business and Trade Committee (Department: Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy)

Found: aviation fuels (SAF), to zero-carbon aircraft.

Lords Chamber
Transport System: Failings - Thu 25 Apr 2024
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Lord Faulkner of Worcester (Lab - Life peer) While electric cars may help, no such solution is available for aviation or heavy haulage, which will - Speech Link
2: Lord Whitty (Lab - Life peer) First, the switch to electric vehicles has slowed down. - Speech Link
3: Lord Stevens of Kirkwhelpington (XB - Life peer) It will affect general aviation in a major way. - Speech Link

Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Thu 14 Dec 2023
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) When he plans to publish further information on the UK sustainable aviation fuel mandate. - Speech Link
2: Anthony Browne (Con - South Cambridgeshire) I spoke at the International Civil Aviation Organisation conference in Dubai, and to aviation Ministers - Speech Link
3: Anthony Browne (Con - South Cambridgeshire) We have introduced the sustainable aviation fuel mandate, under which 10% of aviation fuel should be - Speech Link
4: Bill Esterson (Lab - Sefton Central) The Secretary of State told the Transport Committee that electric cars are cheaper to run than their - Speech Link

Departmental Publication (News and Communications)
Department for Transport

Mar. 21 2024

Source Page: Self-driving delivery boats to benefit from £1.8 million future transport fund
Document: Self-driving delivery boats to benefit from £1.8 million future transport fund (webpage)

Found: Decarbonisation, Aviation and Technology Minister, Anthony Browne, has announced the 41 winning projects

Departmental Publication (Policy paper)
Department for Transport

Mar. 18 2024

Source Page: Future of Flight action plan
Document: Future of Flight action plan (webpage)

Found: paper Future of Flight action plan A joint strategy for the industrialisation of emerging aviation

Written Question
Aviation: Electric Vehicles
Tuesday 25th July 2023

Asked by: Lord Taylor of Warwick (Non-affiliated - Life peer)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to support the (1) development, and (2) adoption, of electric aviation technologies in the UK.

Answered by Baroness Vere of Norbiton - Parliamentary Secretary (HM Treasury)

The development and adoption of electric aircraft is considered within the government’s Jet Zero Strategy. On 20 July 2023, DfT published a Jet Zero Strategy One Year On document which highlights the progress and achievements that have been made since the launch of the Strategy, and the next steps to deliver net zero aviation by 2050.

As noted in the Jet Zero Strategy the government is investing a record £685 million over three years into R&D in the UK aerospace sector through the Aerospace Technology Institute (ATI) programme. In February the Department for Business and Trade announced £113 million of co-investment with industry in three Rolls-Royce led projects on hydrogen and Vertical Aerospace work on battery-electric aircraft.

The government works with industry and academia through the Jet Zero Council to drive the delivery of new technologies and innovative ways to cut aviation emissions. In 2022 a Delivery Group of the Council was established on Zero Emission Flight which considers electric aviation.

Select Committee
Opportunity Green
 IPO0025 - Industrial policy

Written Evidence Mar. 05 2024

Inquiry: Industrial policy
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Business and Trade Committee (Department: Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy)

Found: Our response focusses on the opportunities that a net zero aviation sector can offer to the UK as