Transport written question – answered at on 5 May 2009.
Patricia Hewitt
Labour, Leicester West
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport
(1) what recent estimate he has made of the level of use by private and leisure pilots of unlicensed aerodromes likely to follow the introduction of higher charges associated with the administered incentive pricing for aeronautical radio spectrum;
(2) what recent assessment he has made of the effect on (a) airlines and (b) airline passengers using East Midlands airport of the introduction of administered incentive pricing for aeronautical radio spectrum;
(3) what recent assessment he has made of the effect on (a) aviation and (b) passenger safety of the introduction of administered incentive pricing for aeronautical radio spectrum.
Jim Fitzpatrick
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
ofcom, the independent regulator for the UK communications industries, published proposals for administered incentive pricing (AIP) in its 2008 consultation 'Applying spectrum pricing to the Maritime and Aeronautical sectors'. Ofcom did not publish an Impact Assessment with this consultation, but indicated that it would do so with its second consultation on AIP. Publication of this second consultation, which will feature more detailed proposals for the implementation of AIP in the maritime and aeronautical sectors, is anticipated in spring 2009.
We expect Ofcom's Impact Assessment to identify fully the potential effects of AIP on the maritime and aeronautical sectors.
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