HC Deb 04 December 1987 vol 123 cc736-7W
Dr. Thomas

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence (1) how many Royal Air Force police, expressed as full-time equivalent staff, are currently assigned to covert field monitoring of low-flying aircraft; and what changes have taken place in these staffing levels since 1977;

(2) when the practice of covert monitoring of low flying by Royal Air Force police was introduced;

(3) if he will make a statement on the methods used by Royal Air Force police involved in covert monitoring of low-flying activity to assess height and speed of low-flying aircraft;

(4) if he will list the locations and dates of periods of covert monitoring of low-flying operations conducted by Royal Air Force police since 1974;

(5) on how many occasions since 1974 disciplinary proceedings have been instituted against pilots found to have been infringing low-flying regulations by Royal Air Force police involved in covert monitoring in low-flying areas, but where no complaints were received from the public.

Mr. Freeman

I will write to the hon. Member.