§ Caroline FlintTo ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions (1) what proportion of residents from each English region travelled from airports in the Manchester International Airport Group in the last year for which estimates are available; [21427]
(2) what proportion of residents of the North West Region travelled from airports in the Manchester International Airport Group in the last year for which estimates are available. [21428]
§ Mr. JamiesonThe figures are not available in the form requested. The information that is available about the use of UK airports relates to the number of passenger journeys made to and from each airport, and not to the number of individual passengers who use each airport. The number of passenger journeys is as follows.
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Arrivals and departures of UK residents at the Manchester International Airport Group1 by region of residence of passenger: 1999–20002 Thousand Standard region Passenger journeys North 555 Yorkshire and Humberside 3,785 East Midlands 1,787 East Anglia 33 South East 450 South West 275 West Midlands 1,218 North West 7,118 Region unknown3 739 England 15,960 1 Manchester, Bournemouth, East Midlands and Humberside airports. 2 Figures for Manchester and Bournemouth airports are for 2000, those for East Midlands and Humberside are for 1999. 3 This relates to journeys where the relevant information was not collected from the passenger.