Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to table 15 of the Department of Health and Social Care Annual Report and Accounts 2022-23, HC 33, published on 25 January 2024, what the distance travelled on domestic flights was in 2021-22.

The figure reported in the Department of Health and Social Care Annual Report and Accounts 2022/23, showing the greenhouse gas emissions associated with domestic air travel in 2021/22, includes domestic flights made by:

- the Department;

- the Care Quality Commission;

- NHS England;

- NHS Resolution;

- the Health Research Authority;

- NHS Counter Fraud Authority;

- NHS Business Services Authority;

- the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency;

- the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence;

- the UK Health Security Agency;

- and the former NHS Digital and Health Education England, which are both now merged with NHS England.

The distance travelled by domestic flights in 2021-22 for these bodies was 185,415 kilometres.