Question follow-through · 125837
Aviation: Exhaust Emissions
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of contrail-mitigation measures in reducing aviation's climate impact.
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- Answering body
- Department for Transport
- Tabled
- 10 Apr 2026
- Target answer date
- 14 Apr 2026
- Answer
- 20 Apr 2026 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Draft Climate Change Act 2008 (International Aviation and International Shipping) Regulations 2026 · 24 Jun 2026
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Recorded timeline
10 Apr 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of contrail-mitigation measures in reducing aviation's climate impact.
14 Apr 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
20 Apr 2026
Answer published
The Government recognises that aviation has non-CO2 impacts such as contrails which may have significant warming impacts on the climate, although significant scientific uncertainties remain. The Government has funded 14 projects as part of our Non-CO2 R&a...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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