Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of proposals by the French Government to ban domestic flights on journeys that would take less than two and a half hours by train.

The latest CAA data available shows that there are currently just two scheduled UK domestic routes that are within 2.5-hour range by train. Based upon the French Government’s proposals neither of these routes would be affected as they form part of connecting international flights into Heathrow.