Aviation: Public Lavatories

Mr. Greg Knight
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport if he will make it a legal requirement for commercial passenger airlines to provide free lavatory facilities for passengers on all international flights using UK airports.

Paul Clark
There is no international requirement for airlines to provide lavatory facilities for passengers. Airlines do however provide these facilities for free. We are not aware of any airlines who are not currently doing this.

Therefore we see no reason for regulatory intervention at present.