HC Deb 03 March 1999 vol 326 c732W
Miss McIntosh

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions what representations he has received concerning the threat of retaliatory measures against Concorde flights from Britain to the US following the imposition of environmental measures to ban hush-kit aircraft from the 1 April 2002 in Europe. [73971]

Ms Glenda Jackson

We have received representation from British Airways. The European Union draft Regulation on Hushkitted aircraft, which has passed its second reading in the European parliament, has not yet been adopted by the Council of Ministers.