HC Deb 15 February 1972 vol 831 cc81-2W
Mr. Judd

asked the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what requests he has received from the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development Secretariat for information on action by Her Majesty's Government the resolutions adopted by the last session of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development; what replies he has sent; and whether he will publish in the OFFICIAL REPORT Her Majesty's Government's answers to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development questionnaire, TDO231.

Mr. Noble

It is not the practice to publish replies to questionnaires like TDO321 in which the Secretary-General of U.N.C.T.A.D. asked for information from member States to assist him in preparing a report for the forthcoming third conference on the implementation total movements connected therewith was allocated to each site in 1971, or the last year for which figures are available; and what was the total number of aircraft movements reached in each site for the years 1968, 1969, 1970 and 1971.

Mr. Noble

Aerodromes principally used for airline pilot training are Stansted, Prestwick, East Midlands and Bournemouth Airports and R.A.E., Bedford. At East Midlands and Bournemouth the figures available to the D.T.I. (published in the Business Monitor Series, CA1, Table 1) do not distinguish between airline pilot training and other test and training flights. The number of airline training movements at the remaining aerodromes during 1971 was as follows:

Stansted 10,116
Prestwick 20,921
R.A.E., Bedford 15,630
Total 46,667

The total number of aircraft movements at all these aerodromes during the last four years was as follows:

of conference recommendations and U.N.C.T.A.D.s rôle in the International Development Strategy.