asked the Secretary of State for Trade, in the light of his decision to exempt Concorde from the Heathrow noise limits, if he will consider taking action to improve the compensation arrangements for those living in the Heathrow area.

I am not sure what compensation arrangements the hon. Member has in mind, but I can assure him that we will continue to take all practicable steps to minimise noise disturbance at Heathrow. The number of Concorde movements will be so few initially as to make no significant change to total noise disturbance.

asked the Secretary of State for Trade what was the cost to his Department of tickets for the inaugural scheduled flight of Concorde from London to Bahrain on Wednesday 21st January.

None. My right hon. Friend travelled on this flight at the invitation of British Airways. He was accompanied by two of his officials who were also British Airways' guests.