Freedom of Information
xxx@xxxxx.xxx.xx
Team
www.gov.uk
Correspondence Unit
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SW1A 2AG
Alexander Tiffin
Via: request524985xxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx
Our ref: DEX001479
06 November 2018
Dear Alexander Tiffin ,
I refer to your request, where you asked:
1) Should the UK and EU fail to reach an agreement by leaving day in
March 2019, will UK aircraft be able to fly to and land in EU and EEA
destinations? This includes Norway and Switzerland to avoid any doubt.
If not what is your contingency plan?
2) The Irish Prime Minister has also said that he would not allow UK
aircraft to overfly Eire in a no deal scenario.
Do you believe this is legally enforceable?
I have dealt with your request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (‘the
Act’).
The Department for Exiting the European Union (DExEU) holds some
information relevant to your request.
I consider that the information relevant to part 1 of your request is exempt
under section 21 of the Act.
Section 21 exempts information if this information is reasonably accessible
to the applicant by other means. Section 21 is an absolute exemption and
DExEU is not required to consider whether the public interest favours
disclosure of this information.
The government has published a series of technical notices, with guidance, to help
citizens and business prepare in the event of a ‘No Deal’ scenario. Guidance
relevant to your request and entitled ‘Flights to and from the UK if there’s no Brexit
deal’ was published on 24 September 2018. A copy of this guidance is available
here:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/flightstoandfromtheukiftheresno
brexitdeal
You may wish to contact the FOI team at the Department for Transport on
foiadviceteamxxx@xxx.xxx.xx .
In response to part 2 of your request, the Act covers any recorded
information that is held by a public authority. DExEU is not required to
create new information to respond to a request, or give a judgement or
opinion that is not already recorded. As your request is asking for an
opinion it falls outside the scope of the Act.
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Yours sincerely,
Freedom of Information Team, DExEU.
