PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Aviation: Coronavirus (23 February 2021)

Question Asked

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he plans to publish an aviation recovery plan alongside the Global Taskforce’s report on 12 April.

Asked by:
Sarah Owen (Labour)

Answer

As announced on 22nd February as part of the roadmap for the phased lifting of restrictions in England, the Secretary of State for Transport will also now lead a successor to the Global Travel Taskforce to develop a framework that can facilitate greater international travel when the time is right, while still managing the risk from imported cases and variants.

The government is also developing a forward looking strategic framework on the recovery of the sector, which will explore the return to growth of the aviation sector, which will include consideration of workforce and skills, regional connectivity, noise, innovation and regulation, and consumer issues. We will also consider climate change and decarbonisation. We aim to publish this framework later this year.


Answered by:
Robert Courts (Conservative)
1 March 2021

Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0.