Clause 17
Finance Bill
11:45 am
Greg Hands (Shadow Minister, Treasury; Hammersmith and Fulham, Conservative)
I am still struggling. I will go back a little bit, as I thought the hon. Lady was going to explore that in more detail. I am struggling with her rejections of a move to a per-plane basis. I think her conclusion was that it would be too difficult with freight. Nevertheless, the point I raised was that we can still introduce a per-plane basis for commercial passenger aircraft. Freight does not necessarily need to be touched. Has she has explored that?
On another point, the hon. Lady seems to be saying that the EU ETS, and pulling aviation into it, has somehow prevented a need to look at a per-plane basis. I am not sure whether I understood that correctly. Will she also tell us something about the relevance of the ETS to the consideration of whether we go to a per-plane or per-passenger basis?