Airports and airlines must operate in full compliance with all UK laws and regulatory standards to ensure safety, security, and accountability.

If those laws are broken it is our expectation that any and all information useful to inquiries by the relevant authorities is swiftly obtained and passed on.

The Home Office is the lead department for these matters. It would not be appropriate to comment on any ongoing investigations.

Airports and airlines must operate in full compliance with all UK laws and regulatory standards to ensure safety, security, and accountability.

If those laws are broken it is our expectation that any and all information useful to inquiries by the relevant authorities is swiftly obtained and passed on.

The Home Office is the lead department for these matters. It would not be appropriate to comment on any ongoing investigations.

Airports and airlines must operate in full compliance with all UK laws and regulatory standards to ensure safety, security, and accountability.

If those laws are broken it is our expectation that any and all information useful to inquiries by the relevant authorities is swiftly obtained and passed on.

The Home Office is the lead department for these matters. It would not be appropriate to comment on any ongoing investigations.

Airports and airlines must operate in full compliance with all UK laws and regulatory standards to ensure safety, security, and accountability.

If those laws are broken it is our expectation that any and all information useful to inquiries by the relevant authorities is swiftly obtained and passed on.

The Home Office is the lead department for these matters. It would not be appropriate to comment on any ongoing investigations.

Border Force conducts robust security checks on those arriving into the UK, including 100% checks on all notified general aviation flights to reinforce security. Border Force allocates resources based on assessed risk, applying intelligence and targeting techniques. Border Force has implemented a range of initiatives to address vulnerabilities. : https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/general-aviation-operators-and-pilots-notification-of-flights

These include: • Substantially reducing the number of aerodromes permitted to handle flights to and from the UK.

• Introducing a civil penalties regime for non-compliance with airfield designation requirements.

• Person details checked on all notified GA flights.

The police is operationally independent of government and these are matters for the police. The Government will provide to the police any assistance they require.

People responsible for unscheduled international flights to and from the UK are, and have long been, required to provide passenger information for customs and immigration purposes. However, in line with the Home Office’s Borders, Immigration and Citizenship Privacy Information Notice, this information is not retained more than 10 years. Information which is retained is available to the police for the investigation of criminal offences.

The Border Inspection Post at Stansted Airport is currently active. Defra is aware that Stansted has signalled an intention to relocate its Border Inspection Post to another site and that the timing of this remains uncertain. This is a commercial decision for the airport’s owners. No application to de-designate the existing site or designate a new site has been received. The Department stands ready to help progress such applications when received. A routine audit is due to be undertaken of the Live Animal facility in March. Further information may become available as part of the discussions of the day.

We have been clear that any airport expansion proposals need to demonstrate that they contribute to economic growth, can be delivered in line with the UK’s legally binding climate change commitments and meet strict environmental requirements on air quality and noise pollution.

The impacts of any planning application made by Stansted Airport to expand the airport will be carefully considered by the relevant planning authority.

No estimate has been made of the number of passengers using Cambridge South station as an interchange to change from East-West Rail services to connecting services to Stansted Airport.

There are currently no plans to extend the EWR service outside of its core scope, but through services may be an option in the future.

Defra is aware that Stansted has signalled an intention to relocate its Border Inspection Post to another site and that the timing of this remains uncertain. This is a commercial decision for the airport’s owners. No application to de-designate the existing site or designate a new site has been received. The Department stands ready to help progress such applications when received.

Defra is aware that Stansted has signalled an intention to relocate its Border Inspection Post to another site and that the timing of this remains uncertain. This is a commercial decision for the airport’s owners. No application to de-designate the existing site or designate a new site has been received. The Department stands ready to help progress such applications when received.

Defra is aware that Stansted has signalled an intention to relocate its Border Inspection Post to another site and that the timing of this remains uncertain. This is a commercial decision for the airport’s owners. No application to de-designate the existing site or designate a new site has been received. The Department stands ready to help progress such applications when received.

Defra is aware that Stansted has signalled an intention to relocate its Border Inspection Post to another site and that the timing of this remains uncertain. This is a commercial decision for the airport’s owners. No application to de-designate the existing site or designate a new site has been received. The Department stands ready to help progress such applications when received.

Defra is confident that existing and new BCP infrastructure has sufficient capacity and capability to handle the volume of expected checks outlined in the Border Target Operating Model, with robust, dynamic, and effective operational measures ready to call upon if needed. Defra will continue to work with existing BCP operators to ensure they remain operational

It is worth noting that commercial ports are responsible for determining and setting their own rates for recovering costs at their facilities.

Stansted Airport’s noise contour limit has been set through a local planning agreement. Enforcement of local planning conditions at Stansted Airport is a matter for the local authority, Uttlesford District Council.

The Government has been clear that it is not opposed to airport expansion as long as it provides economic growth and is compatible with strict environmental standards.

This Government recognises the importance of maintaining a thriving and competitive aviation sector in the UK to deliver connectivity, including the provision of Public Service Obligations that enable protection of existing domestic routes that are in danger of being lost.

I am unable to comment on any future planning application should it come before ministers for consideration.

The Government is not opposed to airport expansion as long as it contributes to economic growth and is compatible with strict environmental standards. We are committed to achieving the UK’s net zero target by 2050 and have made early progress on sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) through the introduction of a mandate from 1 January 2025 and our plans to legislate for a SAF revenue certainty mechanism. We are also committed to airspace modernisation.

Details of the proposals to expand Stansted Airport and the assessment of its impacts, including environmental impacts, were carefully considered as part of the statutory planning process. Its impacts, including environmental impacts, were carefully assessed as part of the statutory planning process held between January and March 2021.

The independent Planning Inspectorate granted planning approval in June 2021 and a copy of its decision notice and statement of reasons, including views on its impacts on environmental obligations can be found here.

The Government is not opposed to airport expansion as long as it contributes to economic growth and is compatible with strict environmental standards. We are committed to achieving the UK’s net zero target by 2050 and have made early progress on sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) through the introduction of a mandate from 1 January 2025 and our plans to legislate for a SAF revenue certainty mechanism. We are also committed to airspace modernisation.

Details of the proposals to expand Stansted Airport and the assessment of its impacts, including environmental impacts, were carefully considered as part of the statutory planning process. Its impacts, including environmental impacts, were carefully assessed as part of the statutory planning process held between January and March 2021.

The independent Planning Inspectorate granted planning approval in June 2021 and a copy of its decision notice and statement of reasons, including views on its impacts on environmental obligations can be found here.