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Civil Aviation Bill

I was going to intervene, but if the Minister has finished, I will make a quick response. I was interested in what he had to say, as much of it as there was. At a recent Transport Committee meeting, the hon. Member for Manchester, Blackley (Graham Stringer) took evidence from Chief Superintendent Savill on this very point, who said:"““There are a number of the recommendations that we feel frustrated with as a police service. I think the overriding one would be that Sir John””—" Wheeler—"““wisely recommended the mechanism for what we call ‘designating’ an airport. ‘Designating’ is an expression where, through an Act of Parliament in 1974, there was an agreement with the airport operator that the chief officers of police can recover the cost of policing operations in the early 1970s.””" He continued:"““Perhaps not surprisingly, there has been increasing erosion of the principles whereby costs are recovered by police forces and I think that has led to a bit of a patchwork approach to aviation policing across the United Kingdom.””" I would be interested to hear what the Minister has to say about that. I would also be interested to hear, if police reorganisations are going on at the moment, whether it would make sense to consider the policing and security aspects— It being three hours after the commencement of proceedings, Mr. Deputy Speaker put forthwith the Question already proposed from the chair, pursuant to Order [this day]. Lords amendment No. 8 agreed to. Mr. Deputy Speaker then put the Questions necessary to dispose of the business to be concluded at that hour. Lords amendment No. 11 disagreed to. Government amendment (a) in lieu of Lords amendments Nos. 5 and 11 agreed to. Lords amendments Nos. 9, 10 and 12 agreed to. Committee appointed to draw up Reasons to be assigned to the Lords for disagreeing to their amendments Nos. 1, 2 and 4: Mr. Julian Brazier, Mr. Alistair Carmichael, Alan Keen, Mr. Frank Roy and Derek Twigg;Derek Twigg to be the Chairman of the Committee; Three to be the quorum of the Committee.—[Mr. Alan Campbell.] To withdraw immediately. Reasons for disagreeing with the Lords amendments reported, and agreed to; to be communicated to the Lords.