East Midlands Airport: Radio Frequencies
Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform
Written answers and statements, 1 June 2009
Patricia Hewitt (Leicester West, Labour)
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform what estimate he has made of the effect on the average ticket price of a flight from East Midlands Airport of the use by that airport of administered incentive pricing for the aeronautical radio spectrum.
Gareth Thomas (Minister of State (also in the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform), Department for International Development; Harrow West, Labour)
These are matters for the Office of Communication (Ofcom), the independent regulator for the UK communications industry, and I understand that Ofcom is explicitly considering the impact on East Midlands airport (as well as on others) and expects to publish a revised set of proposals, including impact assessment, in June.