Drones: Consultation Response

The hon. Gentleman is right to say that the rhetoric we have heard today is many miles away from ...

As the Member of Parliament for Gatwick airport, I extend my thanks to everybody who worked so ha...

I am grateful for the opportunity to reiterate my thanks to all those in and around Gatwick who w...

I thank the Secretary of State for sharing the parts of the statement he felt like sharing in adv...

Well, it is difficult to tell whether we got more nonsense today from the SNP or from Labour. The...

I fully accept what the Secretary of State says about the adequacy of the laws and the deterrent ...

That is a serious point that we and the security services have been working on. We have been in c...

I welcome the Secretary of State’s statement, but I wonder whether it closes the gate after the h...

On the hon. Lady’s point about BALPA, we legislated last summer to make certain activities around...

In my constituency, which is under the Heathrow flight path, there are significant concerns about...

I know how strongly my right hon. Friend feels about the matter. Of course, the same issue would ...

I think it was Peel who said that the absence of crime, not the apprehension of criminals, was th...

As we are hearing from around the world, protections against such a deliberate and disruptive att...

My right hon. Friend is absolutely right that what we saw at Gatwick was criminal activity, and I...

That is why the measures we introduced last summer—to make it illegal to fly a drone close to an ...

What happened at Gatwick was, as the House knows, pretty damned scary. Wherever we travel in the ...

I absolutely agree with that. We are already seeking to share our knowledge and experience, and I...

The oldest commercial airport in the country is in Shoreham, in my constituency. This problem aff...

That is precisely why the technology becomes so important: for all the requirements that one puts...

The document to which the Secretary of State referred is called “Taking Flight”, but is it not tr...

It might be if we had not, but of course we legislated last year.

Just prior to Christmas, I held a rural crime summit in Lavenham in my constituency. A key issued...

I quite agree, which is why the strategy is about not only meeting the challenge of the careless,...

The Secretary of State is right that what we are discussing was a crime, but it was an entirely f...

I do not think it is a question of one Department or another: we have to work as a team. The trut...

In my 30 years in the fire service, I attended two major aircraft incidents, one of which resulte...

That is the central point: we could have done everything imaginable in legal terms, but if somebo...

I declare an interest: my boyfriend was one of those people who were supposed to land at Gatwick....

This is one of the areas that is currently being worked on at a European level. We are working wi...

Who is responsible for inspecting airfields and airports for their security in matters such as th...

Most immediately, the security at the airport is the responsibility of the owners themselves, sup...

I urge the Secretary of State to look at the reports by the BBC’s Quentin Somerville who shows ho...

I can assure the hon. Lady that we are very well aware of that and, indeed, the security services...

There was some speculation in the press at the time that there may not have been any drones invol...

The report of there being no drone was a misspeak by a police officer. I have spoken to the chief...

I was one of those tens of thousands of people whose journey was disrupted that day. After the in...

I am happy to do that to some degree, but the reality is that the response by the Ministry of Def...

I hope that it comes as no surprise to the Secretary of State that I am now the fourth member of ...

Of course. Many people around the world are trying to find the perfect anti-drone solutions but, ...