Treasury written question – answered at on 17 January 2007.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what assessment he has made of the extent to which changes in air passenger duty rates have influenced the environmental performance of the aviation industry; and on what evidence his assessment is based.
The Chancellor's 2006 pre-Budget report announced that increases in air passenger duty would deliver carbon savings of O.3MtC a year by 2010-11. When the effect of non-carbon dioxide emissions are taken into account this has a climate change impact equivalent to saving around 0.75MtC per year by 2010-11.
The assessment was based on econometric analysis of the effects of an air passenger duty increase on passenger numbers and flights.
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