§ Mr. Muddasked the Minister of Aviation Supply if he will cause to be deleted from the social survey into the effects of sonic boom the listed names of two West Country newspapers which do not 456W exist, namely The Western Morning Mail and The North Devon Journal, as opposed to North Devon Journal-Herald, and have corrected the spelling of The Falmouth Packet.
§ Mr. David PriceI have been asked to reply.
Yes. The list is for the guidance of the interviewers only and has been amended to refer to the Western Morning News, the North Devon Journal-Herald and the Falmouth Packet.
§ Mr. Muddasked the Minister of Aviation Supply if he will cause additional questions to be inserted into the social survey into the effects of sonic boom regarding the general physical and mental health of the interviewee.
§ Mr. David PriceI have been asked to reply.
No. Answers to such questions, even if the individual were prepared to give them, would be very difficult to evaluate accurately for the purposes of this survey.
§ Mr. Muddasked the Minister of Aviaation Supply if he will reconsider the presumption that the United States of America is proceeding with the building of supersonic commercial aircraft, as posed in question 28 of the social survey into the effects of sonic boom.
§ Mr. David PriceI have been asked to reply.
The most recent part of the survey was completed before the cancellation of the Boeing 2707. The questions will be amended accordingly for the future.
§ Mr. Muddasked the Minister of Aviation Supply when he anticipates receiving the results of the survey into the effects of sonic boom; if they will be published; and to what use the results will be applied.
§ Mr. David PriceI have been asked to reply.
The date for completion of the survey will depend on the progress of the flight test programme. A summary of the results will then be published. This survey will still be the only one based upon actual flights of a supersonic airliner. As such, it will be a useful addition to our knowledge of effects of supersonic flights, and of people's reactions to them.
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§ Mr. Muddasked the Minister of Aviation Supply what is the anticipated cost of the survey into the effects of sonic boom; at how many interviews, broken down into areas, it is aimed; and to what extent sections of the survey have been canvassed during periods of test-flight suspension.
§ Mr. David PriceI have been asked to reply.
The estimated cost of the full survey is £23,500. By the end of the survey, some 3,000 people living within the area affected by Concorde's boom will have been interviewed, the numbers being divided according to the distribution of population. In addition, a further 1,500 interviews will have been conducted on people outside the affected areas.
During periods when interviews have been conducted, one test flight has taken place.