Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate he has made of the number UK residents who did not take a (a) domestic and (b) international flight in (i) 2015, (ii) 2016 and (iii) 2017.
Estimates are provided in the tables below for England. They are based on data from the Department’s National Travel Survey and the Office for National Statistics mid-year population estimates. Figures for the UK are not available.
Table 1: Estimated number of England residents who take a domestic flight within Great Britain less than once a year or never (in millions), 2015-2017
| 2015 | 2016 | 2017 |
England residents (millions) | 50.9 | 51.4 | 51.5 |
Table 2: Estimated number of England residents who did not take any outward international flights in the last 12 months (in millions), 2015-2017
| 2015 | 2016 | 2017 |
England residents (millions) | 29.0 | 28.6 | 27.9 |