Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have to reinstate Article 16 of UK Regulation No 1107/2006, which grants the Civil Aviation Authority enforcement powers against operators who infringe upon the rights of disabled people who travel by air.

The revocation of Article 16 of Regulation (EC) No 1107/2006, as retained in UK law following the UK’s exit from the European Union (EU), does not mean that Regulation 1107/2006 is unenforceable. Article 16 was a provision addressed to EU Member States to lay down rules on penalties for breach of the Regulation, which the UK had already done. As the UK has left the EU, it is no longer required or appropriate.