Aviation Security Debate

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Department: Department for Transport

Aviation Security

Peter Kyle Excerpts
Thursday 5th November 2015

(8 years, 5 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Lord McLoughlin Portrait Mr McLoughlin
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It is a matter of paramount importance for any Government to be able to get information that protects and ensures the safety of British citizens, and that is something that all members of this Government, from the Prime Minister down, take very seriously indeed.

Peter Kyle Portrait Peter Kyle (Hove) (Lab)
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The focus at the moment is rightly on the airport in Sharm el-Sheikh, but now that it is suspected that ISIS is targeting aviation, is the Secretary of State undertaking a review of security at British airports?

Lord McLoughlin Portrait Mr McLoughlin
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We are always reviewing safety at British airports; that does not stop. Indeed, people who use them sometimes complain about the level of intrusiveness in those airports. Of course we keep security under review. As I have said, in this particular case we were not satisfied about the way in which some of the security measures were being carried out.