Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he has undertaken an assessment of the financial viability of using public service obligations to support regional airports; and if he will make a statement.

As the Department’s ‘Guidance on the Protection of Regional Air Access to London’ states, the Department will conduct a Value for Money assessment on the economic case for any bids for funds. This was undertaken on each of the existing PSO routes to London, from Newquay, Dundee and Londonderry.