Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the value for money of public investment in the reopening of Doncaster Sheffield Airport, in particular the clause in the proposed lease agreement that would grant the landowner 20 per cent of the airport's future annual turnover; and whether that 20 per cent will apply to revenue from government grants and other public funding provided to the airport operator.

The Government is backing the Mayor of South Yorkshire's plans to reopen Doncaster Sheffield Airport. Decisions on the use of devolved funding and any associated commercial arrangements sit with the South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority and its members under their devolved responsibilities.