QUESTION 11 TRANSPORT
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Well, if the agency was failing, that was the condition we found it in when his party left office.
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I'm I'm not entirely sure what the opposition spokesperson is is complaining about. He's saying we're spending more money on the agency, but that's actually to increase
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automation and digital services and take up to actually make the service more efficient. There is a
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and it's working. I've just thinking it should actually support it.
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Steve Darling.
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Question 11, Mr Speaker.
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Baroness Bloomfield of Hinton Waldrist. Thank you, Mr Speaker. Regional airports are vital gateways for passengers and major sources of local employment. The UK aviation sector operates in acommercial market with airports attracting passengers, an airline
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route development
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Steve Darling. Thank you, Mr Speaker. Regional airports such as Exeter should be an engine foreconomic growth. However, one often sees that the airports uh service
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Through our consultation on the Heathrow expansion national policy statement, we focused dedicatedly on how to increase
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roots
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the airport through a regional fund, how we might better facilitate those connections. Moore broadly, whether it be through airspace modernisation so that we can facilitate better connectivity, or
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regional airports are better protected against fluctuations in the price of jet fuel. The government is committed to
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My Lords, thank you. Speaker, earlier
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This year we saw an issue with
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Lord Chancellor being unable to secure any
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welcome and much needed, but what
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on how we got that support.
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Well, PSO routes, Mr Speaker, are crucial to connect areas of the country such as Cornwall which serve as regional economic hubs.
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