asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department when he now expects to designate Gatwick, Stansted, Prestwick and Edinburgh airports under the Policing of Airports Act.

I have as yet nothing to add to the reply which I gave to a Question by the hon. Member on 17th December—[Vol. 883, c. 404.]—but I can assure him that my right hon. Friends the Home Secretary and the Secretary of State for Scotland will do all they can to designate these airports at the earliest practicable date.