Baden-Württemberg: The state and economic ministries book most flights

Stuttgart (dpa / lsw) - Most of the state administration's official flights were undertaken by employees of the State Ministry last year.

Baden-Württemberg: The state and economic ministries book most flights

Stuttgart (dpa / lsw) - Most of the state administration's official flights were undertaken by employees of the State Ministry last year. The Ministry of Economic Affairs follows, as the "Stuttgarter Zeitung" and the "Stuttgarter Nachrichten" (Saturday) report, citing a response from the Ministry of Finance to an inquiry by the SPD in the state parliament. However, a few years ago, significantly more was flown. According to the report, the decline is “to a not inconsiderable extent” due to the effects of the corona pandemic.

The SPD climate protection expert Gernot Gruber told the newspapers that it was "disappointing that the green-black state government is not reducing climate-damaging air traffic in the state administration and the universities on its own", but that the pandemic has reduced greenhouse gas emissions in this area . The state administration is to be organized in a climate-neutral manner by 2030 - the state government has set this goal in the Climate Protection Act.

According to the report, the number of flights increased by 40 percent from 2015 to 2019. Due to the pandemic, the number then dropped significantly: in 2018, at least 200 flight tickets were bought in almost all ministries a year, and last year the maximum was 75 tickets. These were therefore booked from the government headquarters by Winfried Kretschmann (Greens); In 2018, 571 tickets went to the account of the Ministry of State. If you also count the subordinate state authorities such as universities, the total of flights in 2021 was a tenth of the number in 2018.