HC Deb 09 March 1998 vol 308 cc13-4W
Mr. Stringer

To 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

[pursuant to the reply, 27 February 1998, c. 400]: Following representations from regional airports, the Department has written to airlines and organisations who either operate to, or in the case of airports have regular services, to international destinations beyond the European Economic Area, seeking views on the liberalisation of access to regional airports. In conducting this exercise the Department made it clear to those airlines and 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. Stringer

To 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]

Ms Glenda Jackson

[pursuant to the reply, 27 February 1998, c. 400–01]: The following airlines and organisations were included in the consultation exercise,

Grade Number who attended university1 (a) Percentage who attended university (a) Number who attended Oxford or Cambridge (b) Percentage who attended Oxford or Cambridge (b)
Senior Civil Service (SCS)2 80 55.9 40 28
SCS and equivalent grades3 82 55 40 27
Grade 6 42 51.2 8 9.6
Grade 6 and equivalent grades3 53 54.6 13 13.4
Grade 7 192 48.5 42 10.6
Grade 7 and equivalent grades3 262 50.4 44 8.5
Senior Executive Officer (SEO) 80 25.6 6 1.9
SEO and equivalent grades3 233 34.8 20 3
Higher Executive Officer (HEO) 232 26.3 15 1.6
HEO and equivalent grades3 542 31.4 41 2.3
1 The definition of university is that used in Cabinet Office Mandate statistics and excludes Colleges of Advanced Technology, Polytechnics, Further Education Colleges, Colleges of Education and Professional Institutions.
2 Data on 8 members of the SCS is unavailable as it has not yet been placed on the Personnel Information Manpower Management System
3 Including specialists and other grades held to be equivalent to the core administrative grades.

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
  • Prestwick Airport
  • Virgin Atlantic Airways Limited

The consultation letter was passed, at the Department's request, by Manchester Airport to the Airport Operators Association.