Renewable Transport Fuel Obligations (Amendment) Order 2009

The point is that we cannot separate out the two because we cannot control where biofuels cone from. As the noble Viscount rightly says, there are good and bad biofuels. I have met domestic suppliers of biofuels and I am persuaded that they come into the "good" category, but because we cannot control where those fuels come from and this is an international market, it is incumbent on us to see that, as we develop biofuel targets, they take proper account of sustainability concerns, including those about indirect land use. That is no reflection on the domestic suppliers, simply a statement of the necessity that we face to see that the industry as a whole is put on a sustainable basis if we are going to see the significant increase in biofuels that we want so that they can replace fossil fuels. They must do so on a basis that does not have unacceptable negative environmental impacts. Motion agreed.