No accounts and no accountability.

The trustees of the Air Travel Trust are compelled to file accounts within 90 days of year end (31 March).

The accounts for 2022-23 were due no later than 30 June 2023. They have not been filed.

No surprise they did not materialise given that the ATT accounts have been late every year since 2017. The 2021-22 accounts are now over a year late.

The ATT are a very simple set of accounts. On the one hand: how many £2.50 APC fees have been collected and on the other how much has been paid out for the failure of companies who did not safeguard client money.

Why the reluctance to file these simple accounts? We have been trying to find out.

The only person who can give permission for the ATT accounts to be late is the SOS for Transport, Mark Harper MP.

Our suspicion from the heavily redacted documents, eventually passed as part of a FOIR, is that the ATT no longer has the backing of the Treasury and as such is no longer a going concern.

If this is this the case and the ATT is deficient to meet the risk it covers, is it not in the public interest to say so and publish the accounts?