Question to the Department for International Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what discussions (a) she, (b) Ministers and (c) officials of her Department have had with the International Air Transport Association on (i) maintaining existing global airline-based trade routes to and from the UK and (ii) reopening other such trade routes (A) during and (B) after the covid-19 outbreak; and if she will make a statement.

This Department has not been in communication with the International Air Transport Association.