Question follow-through · 65262
Aviation
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps her Department is taking to support the aviation sector.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Transport
- Tabled
- 7 Jul 2025
- Target answer date
- 9 Jul 2025
- Answer
- 11 Jul 2025 · 4 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Draft Climate Change Act 2008 (International Aviation and International Shipping) Regulations 2026 · 24 Jun 2026
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Recorded timeline
7 Jul 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps her Department is taking to support the aviation sector.
9 Jul 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
11 Jul 2025
Answer published
This Government has shown that it will support the UK aviation sector by backing airport expansions that promote economic growth while meeting climate and environmental standards, as well as ending years of uncertainty by inviting proposals for a third ru...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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