To ask the Secretary of State for Defence whether an RAF air transport flight rescheduled (a) 24 hours or fewer, (b) 12 hours or fewer and (c) six hours or fewer before its departure is considered to have departed on time if it subsequently departs at its rescheduled time. (118830)

[holding answer 5 February 2007]: No. Any rescheduled RAF or transport flight which departs within 24 hours or less of the originally scheduled departure time is recorded as “delayed”.