Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what estimate they have made of the economic impact on the UK travel industry of the ban on direct flights between the UK and Sharm el Sheikh airport since the ban was imposed in 2015.

We do not collect information on the economic value of outbound flights to specific global destinations and the value of them to the UK travel market. Therefore, it is difficult to make any assessment of the impact on the UK economy, since holidaymakers who would have booked to visit Sharm El Sheikh may have booked flights to other destinations instead. This would still benefit the UK travel industry.