Aviation: Coronavirus

(asked on 11th March 2021) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, on what date he plans to publish the aviation recovery plan; and whether it is his policy to make Government support for the aviation industry dependant on commitments to reduce carbon emissions.


Answered by
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Robert Courts
Solicitor General (Attorney General's Office)
This question was answered on 17th March 2021

On 22 February the Prime Minister announced that the Global Travel Taskforce will develop a framework to facilitate greater international travel, whilst managing the risk of COVID cases and new variants, which will report on 12 April.

The government is also currently developing a strategic framework for the aviation sector, which will focus on how the sector can build back better to deliver a world leading aviation sector for the UK. We expect to publish this framework later this year.

This will include a thorough consideration of the sector’s contribution to the government’s target of a net zero economy by 2050.

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