Written question asked by Tania Mathias (Conservative) on Monday, 25 April 2016, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Thursday, 28 April 2016 (named day). It was answered by Robert Goodwill (Conservative) on Thursday, 28 April 2016 on behalf of the Department for Transport.

Aviation: Security

Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the potential effect on the security of airports of security scanning all bags before they are allowed into an airport building.

Answer: We regularly assess all threats to aviation security along with appropriate response measures. Following the recent attacks at Brussels Airport, measures were put in place to enhance the protection of public areas at UK airports. We do not currently assess that requiring all bags to be scanned at the entrance to airport building would be an effective and proportionate response, but we will continue to work with airports and the police to keep this and other possible measures under review.

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