HC Deb 05 February 2002 vol 379 cc850-2W
Mr. Llwyd

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many complaints he has received regarding low flying military aircraft by constituency in the past year. [30628]

Dr. Moonie

Low flying complaints are not recorded by constituency. The hon. Member may, however, wish to be aware that in 2001 the number of individual complaints recorded by the Ministry of Defence Low Flying Complaints and Inquiries unit by unitary authority or county title was as shown in the table.

Wales Number
Carmarthenshire 82
Ceredigion 33
Clwyd 8
Denbighshire 3
Dyfed 132
Glamorgan 17
Gwent 13
Gwynedd 26
Wales Number
Monmouthshire 13
Pembrokeshire 61
Powys 88
Total 476

Scotland Number
Aberdeenshire 42
Angus 14
Argyll and Bute 12
Ayrshire 15
Berwickshire 23
Borders 77
Central Scotland 19
Clyde 23
Dumfries and Galloway 171
Fife 32
Grampian 14
Highlands 122
Lanarkshire 12
Lothian 51
Moray 11
Orkney 11
Perthshire 32
Rosshire 18
Strathclyde 1
Tayside 47
Western Isles 3
Total 750

England Number
Buckinghamshire 35
Cambridgeshire 113
Cheshire 21
Cleveland 6
Cornwall 89
Cumbria 168
Derbyshire 22
Devon 205
Durham 14
East Sussex 32
East Yorkshire 13
Essex 51
Gloucestershire 126
Greater Manchester 1
Hertfordshire 15
Humberside 18
Isle of Man 1
Kent 52
Lancashire 21
Leicestershire 13
Lincolnshire 120
London 12
Manchester 1
Merseyside 1
Middlesex 3
North Yorkshire 170
Norfolk 275
Northamptonshire 52
Oxfordshire 76
Rutland 1
South Yorkshire 17
Shropshire 66
Somerset 243
Staffordshire 33
Suffolk 129
Surrey 17
Tyne and Wear 1
England Number
West Yorkshire 33
Warwickshire 22
West Midlands 1
West Sussex 65
Wiltshire 107
Total 3,008

Although a number of the county, or unitary authority, boundaries have changed, complaints have been recorded by the address given by the correspondent. An additional 12 correspondents did not reveal an address when registering their complaint. Details of the pattern of military low flying activity by low flying area are included on the Ministry of Defence website under the address www.lowflying.mod.uk.

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