Department of Health and Social Care: Aviation

Department of Health and Social Care written question – answered am ar 6 Chwefror 2024.

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Photo of Emily Thornberry Emily Thornberry Shadow Attorney General

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to table 15 of the Department of Health and Social Care Annual Report and Accounts 2022-23, HC 33, published on 25 January 2024, what the distance travelled on domestic flights was in 2021-22.

Photo of Andrew Stephenson Andrew Stephenson Assistant Whip, Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)

The figure reported in the Department of Health and Social Care Annual Report and Accounts 2022/23, showing the greenhouse gas emissions associated with domestic air travel in 2021/22, includes domestic flights made by:

- the Department;

- the Care Quality Commission;

- NHS England;

- NHS Resolution;

- the Health Research Authority;

- NHS Counter Fraud Authority;

- NHS Business Services Authority;

- the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency;

- the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence;

- the UK Health Security Agency;

- and the former NHS Digital and Health Education England, which are both now merged with NHS England.

The distance travelled by domestic flights in 2021-22 for these bodies was 185,415 kilometres.

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