§ Mr. Speed asked the Secretary of State for Transport if he will make a statement about the bilateral liberalised air agreements he has made in 1985 and the agreements he hopes to make in 1986.
§ Mr. Michael Spicer[pursuant to the reply, 13 December 1985]: In 1985 we have secured new liberal agreements with Belgium, Luxembourg and Switzerland, and have made our agreement with the Netherlands even more liberal. We have also been able to note the growth in air traffic that has followed our liberal agreements in 1984 with the Netherlands and the Federal Republic of Germany.
In 1986 during the EC Presidency of the Netherlands and the United Kingdom we will be making a major effort to achieve a truly liberal EC aviation policy. Bilaterally, we shall be continuing our discussions with Finlnd, the Scandinavian countries and Spain, and we already hope to open discussions with Austria and the Irish Republic.