Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many staff from his Department formerly seconded to the Airports Commission have returned to his Department to work on aviation policy.

The Department’s two aviation policy directorates comprise 132 members of staff. Of the 24 members of staff that were seconded from the Department for Transport to work for the Airports Commission, 12 have returned to work at the Department.　The team working on airport capacity issues however has been structured to ensure that no-one returning from the Airports Commission Secretariat works in the team that is specifically tasked with reviewing the Airports Commission’s Final Report.