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Question for Department for Transport

UIN 213914, tabled on 7 November 2014

Question

Mr Gordon Marsden
Labour
Blackpool South
Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many non-scheduled departures from the UK there have been by private aircraft since 2010.

Answer

Mr Robert Goodwill
Conservative
Scarborough and Whitby
Commons

Answered on

17 November 2014

The Department for Transport does not collect information on such flights.

All General Aviation flights are required to submit advance information, in the form of a General Aviation Report (GAR) prior to arriving in the UK. This information – including passenger details, flight details and aircraft details – is checked against Home Office IT systems.

All flights must also submit a flight plan before arriving in the UK to NATS (formally known as the National Air Traffic System). Border Force routinely cross references this data with GARs received.

Border Force risk assess all flights which are notified and seek to attend to all high priority flights.

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