Air Passenger Duty: Northern Ireland

(asked on 16th May 2018) - View Source

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask Her Majesty's Government by how much the Northern Ireland Block Grant was reduced to allow the Northern Ireland Executive to set a nil rate of Air Passenger Duty on transatlantic flights from Northern Ireland in the last three financial years for which figures are available.


Answered by
Lord Bates Portrait
Lord Bates
This question was answered on 24th May 2018

Reductions to the Northern Ireland Executive’ Block Grant to reflect the devolution of long haul Air Passenger Duty in Northern Ireland for 2015/16, 2016/17 and 2017/19 are set out in the table below :

2015-16

2016-17

2017-18

£2.269 m

£2.166 m

£ 2.224m

These figures are not cumulative.

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