Asked by: Matthew Offord (Conservative - Hendon)
Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what progress has been made on the reconstruction of the runway on Ascension Island.
Answered by James Duddridge
The reconstruction of the Ascension Island runway is a critical project which will help secure future access to the island. The project, jointly funded by the UK and the United States, is an important priority for the UK Government and is being completed in two halves, with the runway operating at fifty percent capacity throughout the project. Contractors are currently on the island and have started construction works. The estimated runway completion date is late 2022.
Sep. 30 2021
Source Page: JSP 752 -Tri-Service regulations for expenses and allowancesFound: Such destinations currently include, but are not limited to; Cyprus, Ascension and the Falkland Islands
Oct. 06 2021
Source Page: General rules to determine the origin your products for trade between the UK and EUFound: and procedures for allocation of slots at the airports in its territory are applied in a transparent
Mentions:
1: None Secondly, working with policing partners, we will increase the police presence at ports and at airports - Speech Link
2: Viscount Waverley (CB - Excepted Hereditary) available to deploy digital travel passes, and in the process create safe travel routes, open up airports - Speech Link
3: Baroness Williams of Trafford (CON - Life peer) Military flights continue to provide access to the Falkland Islands and Ascension Island. - Speech Link
Apr. 20 2021
Source Page: Interim Agreement establishing an Economic Partnership Agreement, done at London on 9 March 2021, between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, of the one part and the Republic of Cameroon, of the other partFound: communication network (roads, inland waterways, railways, promotion of ports, dry ports and airports
Apr. 30 2021
Source Page: UK/EU and EAEC: Trade and Cooperation Agreement [TS No.8/2021]Found: and procedures for allocation of slots at the airports in its territory are applied in a transparent
Feb. 08 2021
Source Page: European Investigation OrdersFound: As regards the allocation of slots at airports, each Party shall ensure that its regulations, guidelines
Sep. 28 2020
Source Page: Pet travel: checks on pets by transport carriersFound: b) Approval of Airport Checker and Facilities: 4 PT44 (Rev. 07/20 ) Checkers at airports may
Mentions:
1: Lord Naseby (CON - Life peer) unearthed, some years ago now, a manoeuvre that was being done with light aircraft out of small airports - Speech Link
2: None comes on a day when we read in the Financial Times that the Government seriously considered using Ascension - Speech Link
Dec. 29 2020
Source Page: I. UK - EU Trade and Cooperation Agreement. Incl. Annexes. 1,246p. II. Letter dated 29/12/2020 from Michael Gove MP containing the commitment to deposit the Agreement. 1p.Found: As regards the allocation of slots at airports, each Party shall ensure that its regulations, guidelines