Tania Mathias – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Transport

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Tania Mathias on 2016-05-23.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether the Government is taking steps to reduce the number of flights between non-UK airports entering UK airspace.

Mr Robert Goodwill

The Government is not seeking to reduce the number of overflights in UK airspace. The ability to overfly UK airspace is a freedom of the air which we have granted to other signatories of the International Air Services Transit Agreement as well as non-signatory States on a bilateral basis.