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Terrorism: Aviation Security

My Lords, in the wider context to which both Front Benches referred, can the Minister confirm that control orders are simply not relevant to this situation and that, had they been in place, they would not have prevented it? Would she also like to comment on the remarks made by Michael O’Leary of Ryanair, who talked today about ““ludicrous”” airport security? He said that, "““we have another … lurch by the securicrats into making travel even more uncomfortable and an even more tedious ordeal for the public””." I say this not as a cheap shot—although one might say that, if anyone knows about that, he would—but because I think that these are serious points, which should be responded to.