Written question asked by Grant Shapps (Conservative) on Tuesday, 5 December 2017, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Monday, 11 December 2017 (named day). It was answered by John Hayes (Conservative) on Monday, 11 December 2017 on behalf of the Department for Transport.
Aviation: Employment
- Question
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To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the contribution to growth and employment in the STEM sector made by the general aviation sector in the UK.
- Answer
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In March 2015 the Government published research that the Department for Transport commissioned from York Aviation entitled “The Economic Value of General Aviation in the UK”. That research contained an estimate of the jobs linked to the general aviation sector in the UK being 38,000. York Aviation did not separate out the contribution from the Government’s STEM (Science, Technology Engineering and Mathematics) education programmes.
We are commissioning research on what a strategic network of general aviation airfields might look like and this research may review that calculation. We expect this research to report in 2018.
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- Written question
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- 117483
- Session
- 2017-19
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- Yes
- Subjects
- Aviation Employment Engineering STEM subjects
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