Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will support calls by UK airlines to implement licensing airside at airports to tackle drunk and disruptive passengers.

The Government has publicly committed to issue a Call for Evidence on airside alcohol licensing.

The Call for Evidence will allow the Government to assess the true scale of the problem of drunk and disruptive airline passengers, the extent to which existing statutory powers and other measures are used to address the problem as well as the impact the extension of the Licensing Act 2003 to airside premises at international airports in England and Wales could have on reducing alcohol-related disruptive passenger behaviour. The Call for Evidence will be issued shortly.