Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will make it his policy to adopt the World Health Organisation noise threshold levels (a) for monitoring and reporting on noise pollution from aviation and (b) as a statutory requirement to be met by all airport operators; and if he will make a statement.

Following the 2018 publication of the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) Environmental Noise Guidelines for the European Region, the Government convened the Defra-led Interdepartmental Group on Costs and Benefits Noise Subject Group. This group is reviewing the evidence underpinning the WHO’s guidelines, together with more recent evidence and it will consider whether there are any necessary updates to relevant government guidance.