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Air Passenger Duty: Northern Ireland

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Question for HM Treasury

UIN 227088, tabled on 10 March 2015

Question

Dr William McCrea
Democratic Unionist Party
South Antrim
Commons

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent discussions he has had with the Northern Ireland Executive on air passenger duty.

Answer

Priti Patel
Conservative
Witham
Commons

Answered on

13 March 2015

Treasury Ministers and officials have regular discussions with Northern Ireland Executive Ministers and officials on a wide variety of topics.

Any further devolution of air passenger duty to Northern Ireland, as a means to achieve a reduction in rates, would need to be funded by the Northern Ireland Executive.

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