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Written Question · S1W-24145 · Session 1

Whether it will make any additional assistance available to Highlands and Islands Airports Ltd in order to enable the company to reduce the…

Answered Asked by Fergus Ewing SNP Lodged 14 Mar 2002

The question

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will make any additional assistance available to Highlands and Islands Airports Ltd in order to enable the company to reduce the standard tariff landing charges at Inverness Airport and, if so, whether such assistance will enable such charges to be reduced to the levels of airports at Glasgow, Edinburgh or London Heathrow.

The answer

Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 28 Mar 2002 · 14 days after it was lodged, on time

Charges at the airports operated by Highlands and Islands Airports Ltd, and grant to the company, will continue to be set at levels which will ensure the maintenance of essential air services.

In the Official Report

No contribution in the Official Report cites S1W-24145 by reference.