Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Lord Hammond of Runnymede and Henry Smith

Tuesday 5th March 2019 Commons Chamber

[Mr Philip Hammond]

I am not in a position to comment on private conversations that the hon. Gentleman may have had with my right hon. Friend the Environment Secretary, but I can tell him that I agree with everything my right hon. Friend has said at this Dispatch Box.

[Henry Smith (Crawley) (Con)]

T10.   What assessment has the Treasury made of the impact of air passenger duty on regional and short-haul airlines?

Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Lord Hammond of Runnymede and Henry Smith

Tuesday 6th November 2018 Commons Chamber

[Henry Smith (Crawley) (Con)]

Previous independent assessments of the impact of air passenger duty have shown that it costs the economy more than it brings into the Exchequer. May I have an assurance that the Treasury will do its own modelling to ensure that this island trading nation can compete better in the future?

[Mr Philip Hammond]

Yes. The Treasury regularly receives independent assessments that tell us that taxes cost us more than they deliver to us, and I can assure my hon. Friend that the Treasury always does its own modelling to reach its decisions.