Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he has made an assessment of the effect of the closure of Doncaster-Sheffield airport on the ability of people living in the region to visit friends and family abroad.

The Government remains very disappointed that Peel Group took the decision to close Doncaster-Sheffield Airport. This was a commercial decision made by the owners of the airport.

The department recognises that this has affected the passengers who used the airport and those businesses, organisations and people who worked at the airport and within the supply chain. Many of the routes which operated from Doncaster-Sheffield Airport have moved to nearby airports such as Leeds-Bradford, Manchester and East Midlands.