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HANSARDInternational TravelThe good news is that costs have been coming down, really quite dramatically, in the past couple of months. I share my hon. Friend’s enthusiasm and anxiety to get the sector to…29 Jun 2021HANSARDInternational TravelWhat a load of nonsense. I expect that the hon. Gentleman does not want to see—just taking a random example—the thousands of jobs created in car plants, just because of his…29 Jun 2021HANSARDInternational TravelI am most anxious to enable my hon. Friend to travel to the Council of Europe, and I will undertake to speak to my opposite number, Jean-Baptiste Djebarri, to find out what can be…29 Jun 2021HANSARDInternational TravelThe point that the hon. Lady and the whole House will wish to recognise is that last year we were able only to look at the level of infection, which she rightly mentioned, as the…29 Jun 2021HANSARDInternational TravelMy right hon. Friend is absolutely right. That follows from the last question, really. It is no longer about just looking at what the infection rate is in a particular country; we…29 Jun 2021HANSARDInternational TravelI am concerned about the position of airlines and airports and of the aviation sector generally—the House will be interested to know that I track it every single week. I am a…29 Jun 2021HANSARDInternational TravelI am very happy to take a further look at it, and my hon. Friend is right to point to the exemptions that have been provided for large job-creating travel under very specific and…29 Jun 2021HANSARDInternational TravelI am tempted to say that we cannot have it both ways. We have to be vigilant and aware of the risks of travelling to every single country in the world. Without exception, other…29 Jun 2021HANSARDInternational TravelI want to let my hon. Friend know that, in the very sad case that he talked about, America’s being on the amber list would allow them to travel. There is a wider issue with the…29 Jun 2021HANSARDInternational TravelFirst, it is worth saying that I keep hearing the hon. Gentleman calling for the data to be published. For his ease, I have been to the gov.uk website and checked it for him. The…29 Jun 2021HANSARDTransportMy hon. Friend is absolutely right. I saw some coverage of the flexible season tickets, and it is true to say that ticketing is complex across the network, but, compared with a…29 Jun 2021HANSARDTransportMy hon. Friend is absolutely right. I saw some coverage of the flexible season tickets, and it is true to say that ticketing is complex across the network, but, compared with…29 Jun 2021HANSARDEuropean Motor Insurance Directive (Vnuk)On 21 February 2021, the Government announced they intended to remove the effects of the 2014 European Court of Justice’s ruling in the Vnuk case from GB law. The Government have…29 Jun 2021HANSARDInternational TravelThe reality of the situation is that this virus just does not give us those answers. I wish it would. I hope the hon. Gentleman can see that, through the combination of the…29 Jun 2021HANSARDInternational TravelI urge the hon. Lady to talk to her own Front Benchers, who are trying to remove the amber list entirely and chuck all those countries, presumably, into red; the hon. Member for…29 Jun 2021HANSARDInternational TravelMy hon. Friend is absolutely right about clarity on this. That is why a traffic light system—followed, as I have mentioned, by other countries; France, for example, has introduced…29 Jun 2021HANSARDInternational TravelThe hon. Lady is absolutely right to be concerned about the delta variant, but the reason we know about the delta variant in this country is that we sequence around 50% of all the…29 Jun 2021HANSARDInternational TravelMy hon. Friend, who has done a great deal to support the aviation sector, is absolutely right. The Prime Minister and the President announced the working group. As I mentioned…29 Jun 2021HANSARDInternational TravelI pay tribute to the hon. Gentleman, who often speaks up for aviation, given the airport-constituency connection that he has. I point out again that we have provided billions of…29 Jun 2021HANSARDInternational TravelI will certainly be very pleased to return to this House with further details as soon as next month. I explained in my opening remarks that there are quite a number of…29 Jun 2021