§ Mr. Peter DuncanTo ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many RAF training sorties were undertaken in(a) Scottish and (b) UK airspace during each of the last 12 months. [118318]
§ Dr. MoonieInformation on the geographical location of training sorties flown over the United Kingdom or Scotland is not recorded separately. To produce an estimate of the number of sorties undertaken in UK airspace, details of overseas sorties have been removed from statistics which show the total number of all training sorties flown.
Month Sorties originated in UK Airspace April 2002 15,788 May 2002 17,579 June 2002 14,562 July 2002 17,204 August 2002 15,649 September 2002 17,835 October 2002 17,333 November 2002 13,726 December 2002 10,327 January 2003 13,300 February 2003 13,556 March 2003 14,363 Note:
Includes fixed and rotary wing RAF aircraft