Sentence examples for devolution of air from inspiring English sources

They also intend to press for the devolution of air passenger duty to boost Scotland's tourism industry.

While none of these elements were included in the Queen's speech, it did cover allowing the Scottish parliament to set thresholds and rates of income tax on earnings in Scotland and keep all income raised in Scotland, giving Holyrood control over the first 10 percentage points of standard rate VAT revenue raised in Scotland, new welfare powers worth £2.5bn, and devolution of air passenger duty.

It also suggested devolution of air passenger duty and that a portion of VAT be given to the Scottish Parliament.

Montgomeryshire Tory MP Glyn Davies suggested Mr Jones was now adding the non-devolution of air passenger duty to the list of hurdles stopping him holding a referendum.

But he said the devolution of control of air passenger duty was also crucial to give the Welsh government "an economic lever that could be used to entice more carriers to the airport".

The plans do not include devolution of powers over air passenger duty – rejected by Westminster – or VAT, which is not permissible under EU law.

The 2012 Act conferred further fiscal devolution including borrowing powers and some other unconnected matters such as setting speed limits and control of air guns.

Mr Cameron's Conservative government will now write his proposals which include devolution of income-tax rates and bands, air-passenger duty and certain welfare benefits—into law before the end of the year, making Scotland about as self-governing as subnational units in federal states like Switzerland and Canada.

The plans also include the potential devolution of control over other taxes such as air passenger duty or capital gains.

We'll have to wait for November the 19th to find out exactly what's on the table here, but the guess would be full devolution of some minor taxes - the Aggregates Levy, Air Passenger Duty, Landfill Tax, possibly Stamp Duty?

And there is also the potential devolution of control over housing benefit, the work programme and other taxes, including air passenger duty or capital gains tax.