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<p>The Civil Aviation Authority 17/18 annual report sets out that the total cost of
the Monarch Airlines repatriation activities amounted to £52.5 million.</p><p> </p><p>Of
this, £9.5m was paid by the Air Travel Trust Fund which covered the costs of repatriating
Monarch Group ATOL protected passengers. The total cost of all other passengers was
assessed as £43.0m.</p><p> </p><p>Since Monarch’s collapse, government has sought
to recover the costs of the operation from several third parties including the finance
and tourism sectors.</p><p> </p><p>I refer to the Written Ministerial Statement made
by the Secretary of State on 9 May 2019, which reported that the final cost to the
taxpayer from the Monarch repatriation had been assessed to be £40.5m.</p><p> </p><p>This
previously stated estimate included an expected contribution from Thomas Cook which,
following their collapse, the government no longer expects to receive.</p><p> </p><p>The
latest estimate of the cost to the taxpayer of repatriating non-ATOL passengers is
£40.7m. A final position on cost recoveries cannot be known until the completion of
the Monarch administration.</p>
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