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Civil Aviation Bill

My hon. Friend will be aware that many travellers, because of the way tickets and holidays are purchased nowadays, have no idea that, if any of the companies became bankrupt, they would be stranded with no rights of return and no support. Will he give us a firm assurance that the CAA will be supported in its suggestion that a £1 levy across the board would not only give travellers genuine protection so that Her Majesty’s Government would not have to pay for the repatriation of British citizens, but benefit many companies by straightening out many of the current anomalies?