Frequent Flyer Airmiles Schemes - Question

Part of the debate – in the House of Lords at 3:10 pm on 21 October 2019.

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Photo of The Bishop of Salisbury The Bishop of Salisbury Bishop 3:10, 21 October 2019

Can the Minister explain why the gap between aviation fuel being untaxed and road fuel being taxed as it is, is so great? If the answer is the difficulty of getting international agreement, why are UK internal flights not taxed to get some parity between different methods of transport?