Air Passenger Duty Reform APPG

1: move,That this House has considered air passenger duty throughout the UK.Good morning, Sir - Speech Link
2: passenger duty was introduced as an environmental tax to try to discourage people from using planes. Does - Speech Link
3: from a UK airport, and is the only tax applied on air travel as the government does not apply VAT to airline - Speech Link

1: the Grand Committee do consider the Operation of Air Services (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020.Relevant - Speech Link
2: which sets out common rules for the operation of air services. These regulations ensure that Regulation - Speech Link

1: must review the effects of a reduction in air passenger duty rates from 1 April 2020 and lay a report - Speech Link
2: budgets,(c) air quality standards,(d) air travel demand, and(e) air traffic movements - Speech Link
3: budgets,(c) air quality standards,(d) air travel demand, and(e) air traffic movements - Speech Link
4: Government to review the extent to which rates of air passenger duty for privately-chartered and privately-owned - Speech Link
5: longer than necessary.The devolution of air passenger duty has not been properly completed, so the Scottish - Speech Link

1: pleasure craft can use and not the amount of fuel duty users pay. They already pay the standard white diesel - Speech Link
2: agreed to.Clause 87Rates of air passenger duty from 1 April 2021Question proposed - Speech Link
3: changes to ensure that the long-haul rates of air passenger duty for the tax year 2021-22 increase in line - Speech Link

1: airport as usual. I must also emphasise that regional air carriers and airports are vital to the Government - Speech Link
2: on what might be achieved with regard to air passenger duty, which has long been a concern to airlines - Speech Link
3: that Transport Ministers never comment on air passenger duty, which is a matter for the Treasury, and - Speech Link
4: compatible with reducing emissions?Slashing air passenger duty across the board would make a mockery of - Speech Link
5: connectivity? We know that Flybe operates outwith ATOL—the Air Travel Organiser’s Licence scheme—so what consumer - Speech Link
6: Transport and the Treasury show that abolishing air passenger duty would lead to an increase in tax income and - Speech Link
7: succeeding. Will the Government look into that type of reform when they press on with the insolvency review, - Speech Link
8: rail is an attractive and viable alternative to air travel, certainly domestically. In places where this - Speech Link
9: successful airlines should encourage and increase air travel, not result in the reductions that are essential - Speech Link

1: transport faces significant challenges: lower passenger demand, reduced capacity as a result of social - Speech Link
2: work more closely with local authorities and to reform core funding for buses to encourage the use of - Speech Link
3: review. The noble Lord mentioned that vehicle excise duty goes into the national roads fund and that is used - Speech Link
4: transport uses air conditioning, which recirculates viruses, bacteria and other nasty things in the air. Will - Speech Link
5: put the concern of the noble Lord to rest in that air-conditioning systems exist in all sorts of circumstances; - Speech Link

1: airlines with relief from the impacts of Covid-19 on passenger demand.EU regulation 2020/459 was adopted - Speech Link
2: I do not mean capacity just in terms of passenger travel, as important as that will be for business - Speech Link

1: airports. The Treasury is also reviewing air passenger duty—APD—to ensure that regional connectivity - Speech Link
2: be much focus on regional connectivity and just air travel, but there are several ways of travelling - Speech Link
3: The noble Lord raises an interesting point. Air passenger duty is under review by Her Majesty’s Treasury - Speech Link
4: the Government, which included a review of air passenger duty, the review of regional services and a time-to-pay - Speech Link
5: Government arrange urgent discussions not only with other air operators and all train operators but with the devolved - Speech Link
6: manifesto to looking at devolving short-haul air passenger duty to the Northern Ireland Executive. In view - Speech Link
7: Lords, following on from the point made about passenger duty, I am sure that the Minister appreciates that - Speech Link
8: have taken a slightly different approach to passenger duty from the UK Government. Discussions with the - Speech Link

1: individual car drivers we pay 58p per litre in fuel duty, and on top of that we pay VAT. The airlines pay - Speech Link
2: point, but air passenger duty is already a tax on every flight which is directly passed on to air passengers - Speech Link
3: is that by taking this approach, whether banning air miles or making other restrictions in this fashion - Speech Link

1: extensive essential flights for Royal Mail, the air ambulance, the military, security and freight. Yet - Speech Link
2: option of rail and road connections, as well as air travel; in Northern Ireland, we have no such options - Speech Link
3: people in Northern Ireland can get over here only by air—at least until the Prime Minister builds his bridge - Speech Link
4: My Lords, could the Minister look again at air passenger duty and provide us with a specific timetable - Speech Link
5: Airport to Dublin, because of the abolition of air passenger duty in the Republic. Therefore, Belfast International - Speech Link