§ Mr. Alasdair MorganTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, pursuant to his answer of 14 January 1999,Official Report, 466W column 246, if he will place in the Library details of the current millennium compliance status of the organisations currently approved by the CAA; what percentage of these are fully millennium-compliant; and if he will make a statement. [66646]
§ Dr. ReidNo. It is not possible to provide information in this detail. The Civil Aviation Authority currently authorises over 2,000 aviation related organisations. These organisations cover all aspects of the UK civil air transport system form airlines to manufacturers and air traffic service providers. All these organisations are engaged in their own individual compliance programmes which involves them in each checking with suppliers who may number from tens to hundreds. These compliance programmes are being assessed by the CAA. Once this assessment is complete, which is expected to be during the third quarter of 1999, the CAA will make a statement about the Y2k readiness of the UK civil air transport system.
As far as National Air Traffic Services (NATS) are concerned, they are in the final stages of their system compliance programme. Only 10 systems out of a total of 700 still require remedial work and NATS expects to reach full systems ready status for the new millennium on or before the end of March 1999.