Finance Bill — New Schedule — Devolution of Air Passenger Duty to Wales — 18 Apr 2013 at 17:15

The majority of MPs voted against a proposal from MP Jonathan Edwards (Carmarthen East and Dinefwr, Plaid Cymru) to devolve responsibility for setting the rate of Air Passenger Duty for long haul flights originating in Wales to the National Assembly for Wales.

During the debate preceding the vote Jonathan Edwards MP gave an indication of the motivation behind his proposal^[1]:

• Fifty million pounds of Welsh taxpayers’ money has been spent on buying an airport ... a proposal that would enable the Welsh Government to make the most of that asset.

This vote was on adding a new Schedule^[2] to the Finance Bill^[3][4]. The rejected new schedule which was one of the changes to the law which would have been required to implement the proposal.

This vote was preceded by another on a closely related amendment.

• [1] Jonathan Edwards (Carmarthen East and Dinefwr, Plaid Cymru), House of Commons, 18 April 2013
• [2] Committee of the Whole House Amendments as at 18 April 2013 - Contains New Schedule Air Passenger Duty: Wales)
• [3] Parliament's webpage on the Finance Bill (now the Finance Act 2013)
• [4] Finance Bill as introduced 28 March 2013

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