HC Deb 20 July 1994 vol 247 c393W
Mr. Critchley

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will make a statement about the future of flying at Farnborough airfield beyond 2000.

Mr. Aitken

The Ministry of Defence is committed to making Farnborough airfield available to the Society of British Aerospace Companies for the biennial airshow until the year 2000. Against the background of the collocation of procurement executive flying at Boscombe Down, the concentration of Defence Research Agency activity on part of the Farnborough site and the consequent requirement to dispose of the remainder of the site, an interdepartmental group of officials has been set up, under the chairmanship of the Department of Trade and Industry, to consider the future of Farnborough airfield, including its use for the SBAC airshow.