GAA complains about Regulating Air Transport Consultation

 Paul Draper complains on our behalf to the DfT that their consultation does not include GA as stakeholders.

 An Abstract:

We proposed the DfT circulate the consultation much more widely within the General Aviation (GA) industry with associated presentations and also raised other issues concerning the principles of it. On 5th February the DfT sent a short additional summary of the proposals to GA representatives. The summary did not adequately further consider the points of principle to which we referred. The consultation has now been circulated to other GA interested parties initially omitted, though on a reduced consultation period.

Accordingly we regret we still consider the consultation does not comply with the consultation criteria set out by the Better Regulation Executive (BRE) whom, we  understand, you represent and will deal with our concerns on their behalf.  In short, the consultation process has been such that the DfT did not do a proper stakeholder analysis, or a proper pre-consultation. Unsurprisingly, given those facts,  the impact assessment is also entirely inadequate, and we are therefore presented with a consultation impossible to adequately respond to in how it may affect our interests.

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