Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask His Majesty's Government, in light of the Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee's 34th Report of Session 2024–26, what progress they have made towards finding a solution for making further amendments to assimilated law in relation to aviation safety after June 2026.

UK airspace and airlines are amongst the safest in the world. The UK remains steadfast in our commitment to maintaining the highest standards of aviation safety. We are confident that the powers gap issue will not impact the UK’s exemplary aviation safety record.

The Department is actively looking at solutions to close or mitigate these gaps at the earliest opportunity to maintain a functioning statute book and provide certainty to the transport sector. We will review whether existing powers on the statute book may be appropriate and look at introducing primary legislation, where needed, when Parliamentary time allows.