Aviation

This page highlights some of the current parliamentary material available on aviation and airports. This includes select committee reports, briefing papers on current legislation and other subjects produced by the parliamentary research services, and the latest Early Day Motions put down by MPs.

Standard Notes

Date	Description
16.07.2013	Air passenger duty : recent debates & reform
	This note looks at the recent debate on taxing aviation, in the context of concerns about the structure of air passenger duty, the rates of tax, and the Coalition Government's consultation exercise on reforming APD, launched in the 2011 Budget. The development of APD since its introduction is set out in two other Library notes (SN413 & SN6426).
03.05.2013	Aviation: airline passengers
	This note deals with three issues affecting airline passengers: the cost of airline tickets; the compensation available for passengers denied boarding or who have suffered flight cancellations and delays; and air carrier liability under the Montreal Convention.
25.04.2013	Military Search and Rescue to end in 2016
	The Royal Air Force and the Royal Navy will no longer provide a Search and Rescue Helicopter service in the UK after March 2016. A wholly civilian service run by Bristow Helicopters Ltd and managed by the Department for Transport will provide the Search and Rescue Helicopter capability for the UK.
13.02.2013	Aviation: night flights
	This note explains the rules on night flights at designated and non-designated airports.
05.12.2012	Transport: winter maintenance
	This note looks at the Quarmby recommendations to improve the resilience of all modes of transport to extreme weather, focusing particularly on the road network. It also explains the duty of highways authorities to ensure that safe passage along the highway is not endangered by snow or ice and looks briefly at issues of salt and grit supplies.

Research Papers

Date	Description
19.10.2012	Social Indicators
	A compendium of the latest social statistics. This edition includes articles on: UK aviation: airports and capacity; Road fuel prices and taxes across the EU; and a look back at London 2012.
20.04.2012	Civil Aviation Bill: Committee Stage Report
	This is a report on the Public Bill Committee Stage of the Civil Aviation Bill.
24.01.2012	Civil Aviation Bill
	This paper has been prepared for the Second Reading debate in the House of Commons on the Civil Aviation Bill, scheduled for 30 January 2012
02.03.2011	Transport policy in 2011: a new direction?
	This paper outlines the changes made to transport policy by the Conservative-Liberal Democrat Coalition Government and looks at some of the long term transport challenges the government is likely to face over the course of this Parliament.
19.03.2010	Transport Policy in 2010: a rough guide
	This paper gives an overview of transport policy in the UK in 2010. It examines a range of issues related to transport policy, including policy-makers, spending on and sources of funding for transport, the transport policy of the main political parties, and the challenges in formulating transport policy in 2010.

Select Committee Reports

Date	Description
05.07.2011	Air passenger duty: implications for Northern Ireland.
	Northern Ireland Affairs Select Committee report [Commons]
09.03.2011	United Kingdom opt-in to the Passenger Name Record directive.
	European Union Select Committee (HL) report [Lords]
08.09.2010	Delivering multi-role tanker capability.
	Public Accounts Committee report [Commons]
24.02.2010	The future of aviation.
	Government response. Transport Select Committee report [Commons]
02.12.2009	The future of aviation.
	Transport Select Committee report [Commons]

Early Day Motions

Date	Description
11.01.2012	AIR PASSENGER DUTY
	That this House recognises the considerable detrimental impact that the current level of airport duty is having on the UK airline industry, regional airports andbusiness and leisure ...
25.10.2011	MR TADEUSZ SAWICZ
	That this House expresses its condolences to the family of Mr Tadeusz Sawicz, one of the last surviving Polish pilots to take part in the Battle of Britain, who passed away on 19 October ...
19.10.2011	80th ANNIVERSARY OF LEEDS BRADFORD INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT
	That this House commends Leeds Bradford International Airport on its 80th anniversary; notes that the Yeadon Aerodrome was opened in 1931 and has been Yorkshire's biggest international ...
12.10.2011	DEVOLUTION OF AIR PASSENGER DUTY
	That this House calls on the UK Government to honour its earlier commitment to devolve the responsibility for Air Passenger Duty (APD) to the Scottish Government; believes that by having ...
07.07.2011	AIRWAYS PENSION SCHEME
	That this House notes with concern the resignations of Mike Post, Cliff Pocock and Graham Tomlin as trustees of the Airways Pension Scheme (APS) established in 1948 to provide pensions ...

POST Papers

Date	Description
01.08.2007	Transport biofuels, August 2007
	Transport biofuels, August 2007. POSTnote 07/293.
01.11.2003	The Environmental Costs of Aviation, November 2003
	This briefing examines the basis for the Government's estimates of environmental costs of aviation and how these could be used in policy decisions related to airport expansion and environmental regulation.