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Air Transport

Volume 407: debated on Monday 16 June 2003

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To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many responses had been received as of 31 May in response to (a) the consultation document, "Future Development of Air Transport in the United Kingdom: A National Consultation" and (b) each of the regional consultation documents on the "Future Development of Air Transport" in the United Kingdom, broken down by region. [119318]

To date we have received over 140,000 responses to the consultation from across the UK. A breakdown by region is set out in the following table.

RegionNOP ResponsesE-mails and letters received
Scotland1,080520
South East25,10041,600
Midlands22,39044,200
North of England3,550890
South West1,460970
Wales130280
Northern Ireland170120
Total53,88088,580

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport (1) how many copies of the (a) main document and (b) summary of the consultation documents (i) "Future Development of Air Transport in the United Kingdom: A National Consultation", (ii) "Future Development of Air Transport in the United Kingdom: North of England", (iii) "Future Development of Air Transport in the United Kingdom: South West", (iv) "Future Development of Air Transport in the United Kingdom: Midlands", (v) "Future Development of Air Transport in the United Kingdom: Wales" and (vi) "Future Development of Air Transport in the United Kingdom: South East" had been (A) issued in hard copy and (B) downloaded from the website, by 31 May; [119319](2) how many copies of the

(a) main document and (b) summary of the (i) national and (ii) regional consultation documents on "Future Development of Air Transport in the United Kingdom" have been issued in hard copy as a result of each exhibition which has taken place to promote the consultation, as of 31 May. [119320]

The following summary and main consultation documents have been distributed since the start of the consultation to 31 May.

Main documentsSummary documents
HardcopyDownloadedHardcopyDownloaded
Midlands37,21011,33046,85012,680
Northern Ireland4,6804,1609,5203,180
North of England13,49015,72048,9908,810
Scotland6,23012,46012,20019,680
South East57,97096,800198,94089,490
South West5,8509,87014,4309,860
Wales4,5103,3305,9802,720

Note:

All Figures rounded to the nearest 10

The number of documents distributed at exhibitions is not available, but the figures in the table are inclusive of them.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what the cost to his Department has been of (a) the exhibitions promoting the consultation documents on the "Future Development of Air Transport in the United Kingdom" and (b) the printing costs relating to the publication of the consultation documents, as of 31 May. [119321]

As part of "The Future Development of Air Transport in the United Kingdom" consultation, 18 public exhibitions were held on the major airport development options. The cost of these was —1.1 million—this includes the cost of the two recent exhibitions on the Gatwick airport options. The cost of printing the consultation documents covering the whole of the UK, including the South East second edition paper, was —940,000.