Aviation

(asked on 7th November 2014) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many non-scheduled departures from the UK there have been by private aircraft since 2010.


Answered by
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Robert Goodwill
This question was answered on 17th November 2014

The Department for Transport does not collect information on such flights.

All General Aviation flights are required to submit advance information, in the form of a General Aviation Report (GAR) prior to arriving in the UK. This information – including passenger details, flight details and aircraft details – is checked against Home Office IT systems.

All flights must also submit a flight plan before arriving in the UK to NATS (formally known as the National Air Traffic System). Border Force routinely cross references this data with GARs received.

Border Force risk assess all flights which are notified and seek to attend to all high priority flights.

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