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Oral question asked in the House of Lords, by Lord Forsyth of Drumlean (Conservative). It was answered on Monday, 19 December 2005.


US Prisons in the EU

Question
My Lords, can the Minister confirm how many flights have actually landed in British airports? Can he explain the confusion there seems to be about the numbers which have been given by the Government and those which are being recorded by planespotters and others?
Answer

My Lords, to the best of my information, approximately 400 flights have landed in the United Kingdom. I am afraid that I can give no information whatever on the basis of collection of data by planespotters. Without being frivolous about planespotting—there may be many adherents in your Lordships’ House for all I know—it is an activity with which I am wholly unfamiliar.


Secondary information

Type
Oral question
Reference
676 c1507 
Session
2005-06
Oral question type
Supplementary
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
Subjects
Detainees EU countries EU action Prisons Terrorism USA
Link
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