Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will estimate how many people in the Dundee area benefit from the Regional Air Connectivity Fund.

Dundee has benefited from £2.8 million of financial support from the Regional Air Connectivity Fund to maintain its air link to London through a public service obligation (PSO). The Government assessment of the route is that it would generate £3.9 million worth of benefits over the two year funding period.