Airline Security

Mark Hunter
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what discussions he has had with his European counterparts in relation to security arrangements for flights into the United Kingdom.

Gillian Merron
Transport Ministers have in recent weeks discussed aviation security issues, not confined to the question of inbound flights, with several of their European counterparts. These issues were also on the agenda of the Transport Council on 12 October, at which the Minister of State for Department for Transport represented the UK.