Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 14 December 2022 to Question 110598 on RAF Valley: Noise, what information his Department holds on the proportion of flying hours that Texan training planes have flown over (a) Arfon (b) North Wales and (c) overwater; and if he will provide a list of counties where training flights have taken place.

Texan aircraft based at RAF Valley operate over a number of areas, including the North Wales Military Training Area and the Valley Aerial Tactics Area, which extend over a significant portion of north and mid-Wales, as well as the Irish Sea. Through its flight planning and daily tasking processes, RAF Valley works to distribute training flights to differing areas as equitably and fairly as possible.

However, there is no requirement for RAF Valley to retain post-flight any details of specific areas or Parliamentary constituencies actually overflown. Therefore, it is not possible to provide detailed information on specific proportions of flying hours overflying any given geographical area.