Question follow-through · 31436
Air Passenger Duty
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment of the merits of lowering Air Passenger Duty rates.
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 13 Feb 2025
- Target answer date
- 24 Feb 2025
- Answer
- 24 Feb 2025 · 11 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
13 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment of the merits of lowering Air Passenger Duty rates.
24 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
24 Feb 2025
Answer published
Air Passenger Duty (APD) applies to airlines and is the principal tax on the aviation sector. It is expected to raise £4.2 billion in 2024-25 and it aims to ensure that airlines make a fair contribution to the public finances, particularly given that tick...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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