§ Dr. CableTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions how many near misses have been recorded over Surrey by aircraft departing from or arriving at(a) Gatwick and (b) Heathrow in each of the last 10 years. [47992]
§ Ms Glenda JacksonThe information is not available as requested, but National Air Traffic Services Limited, which is responsible for air traffic services at Gatwick and Heathrow, has been able to provide figures for the number of airprox ("near miss") reports filed by air traffic controllers and pilots in each of the last 10 years within a radius of 25 miles of the village of Effingham in the centre of Surrey, as follows:
Year Airprox P1 Gatwick Airprox C2 Airprox P1 Heathrow Airprox C2 1988 4 n/a 2 n/a 1989 2 n/a 0 n/a 1990 32 1 33 0 1991 0 33 33 34 1992 31 2 2 2 1993 0 1 2 2 1994 0 0 4 3 1995 0 0 6 1 1996 3 2 4 0 1997 33 32 34 31 1Airprox P are incidents reported by pilots and Airprox C are incidents reported by air traffic controllers 2Airprox C data are available only from 1 January 1990 2Indicates double counting where incidents involved both Heathrow and Gatwick Traffic Note:
No breakdown is available as to which of the above airproxes were assessed by the independent panels as being risk-bearing