§ Mr. StringerTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions if he will place in the Library all responses to his Department's consultation on international access to regional airports. [30310]
§ Ms Glenda Jackson[holding answer 19 February 1998]: No. In conducting the consultation exercise the Department made it clear to those organisations consulted that their responses would be treated on a commercially confidential basis. To place those responses in the House Library would breach that undertaking.
§ Mr. StringerTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions if he will place in the Library a list of(a) airlines and (b) other organisations which have been consulted by his Department for their views on international access to regional airports. [30309]
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§ Ms Glenda Jackson[holding answer 19 February 1998]: The following airlines and organisations were included in the consultation exercise, on the basis that they either operated to, or in the case of airports had regular services to, international destinations beyond the European Economic Area:
- Airtours International Limited
- Air 2000 Limited
- Air UK Limited (now KLM UK)
- Birmingham International Airport Limited
- Britannia Airways Limited
- British Airports Authority plc
- British Airways plc
- British Mediterranean Airways Limited
- British Midland Airways Limited
- Caledonian Airways Limited
- Civil Aviation Authority
- Easyjet Limited
- GB Airways Limited
- Manchester Airport plc
- Monarch Airlines Limited
- Virgin Atlantic Airways Limited.