Aviation: Alternative Fuels
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, will the UK meet the 10% requirement for Sustainable Aviation Fuel by 2030.
Answered by Keir Mather
It is too early to forecast SAF usage for 2030, but our most recent provisional statistics show that 370 million litres of verified and unverified SAF were supplied under the UK Mandate, in 2025 – this currently represents 2.5% of all reported aviation fuel supply against a target of 2% for 2025. Whilst these statistics are provisional, they show a continued increasing trend of SAF supply growing in the UK.
We have a comprehensive plan in place for SAF and continue to encourage the production, development and use of SAF in the UK by: building demand through the SAF Mandate; allocating £63m of funding (for this financial year) to the supply of SAF through the Advanced Fuels Fund; and helping to derisk SAF projects by legislating to introduce a revenue certainty mechanism.
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