My hon. Friend is making an articulate case about the impact on the economy of Great Britain, but there is also an impact on overseas economies. For example, the APD banding is so arbitrary and wrong that the APD for somewhere such as the Caribbean is more than for somewhere as far away as Hawaii. Surely that shows the illogicality of this blunt tax.
Air Passenger Duty
Proceeding contribution from
Guy Opperman
(Conservative)
in the House of Commons on Thursday, 1 November 2012.
It occurred during Backbench debate on Air Passenger Duty.
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