Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what information she plans to publish on the outcome of her Department's efforts to pursue civil penalties issued to aircraft operators for failure to surrender sufficient allowances under the EU Emissions Trading Scheme; what the expected timescale is for those proceedings; and whether any of the operators subject to those proceedings opened accounts for trading periods covering the period 2013 to 2015.

The Environment Agency administers the EU ETS in England. The Environment Agency will seek to recover unpaid penalties as civil debts in line with UK law. Details of penalties imposed are published in line with the Environment Agency’s Enforcement and Sanctions Guidance. The debt recovery process starts with pre-action conduct followed by proceedings if the penalties remain unpaid. The timescales for these proceedings will depend on the specific circumstances of each case.

The aircraft operators, outstanding penalties, and account status are shown below. This information relates to corporate entities only as information on individuals cannot be released due to data protection laws. Registry account information is publicly available at:

http://ec.europa.eu/environment/ets/oha.do?languageCode=en.