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date	03/02/2015
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Air Routes: Northern Ireland
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, in the light of the possible sale of Aer Lingus, what plans they have to protect and maintain regular and frequent air links between Northern Ireland and the rest of the United Kingdom.
tabling member printed	Lord Eames
uin	HL4658
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/02/2015 answer text <p>Airlines, as the airports they serve, operate in a competitive market. Northern Ireland is well-connected by air to London with over 17,000 flights per year between the two Belfast airports and Derry Airport and the five main London airports, carrying over two million passengers. The airports also maintain good connections with other UK airports – Belfast International Airport has connections to eleven domestic destinations, Belfast City Airport to nineteen and Derry airport to three.</p> answering member printed Baroness Kramer question first answered 10/02/2015 12:01:36 answering member 1557 label Biography information for Baroness Kramer
tabling member	2793 label Biography information for Lord Eames

177293

registered interest
date	03/02/2015
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Aviation: Security
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many electronic body scanners have been placed at airports of the United Kingdom and at what cost.
tabling member printed	Lord Eames
uin	HL4660
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/02/2015 answer text <p>On 1 February 2015 security scanners were in place at 17 airports with a further 2 airports expected to deploy security scanners in the coming months.</p><p> </p><p>The cost of security scanners falls to the airports. The Department for Transport does not hold information on the cost.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Kramer question first answered 10/02/2015 12:02:18 answering member 1557 label Biography information for Baroness Kramer
tabling member	2793 label Biography information for Lord Eames

177294

registered interest
date	03/02/2015
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Aviation: Security
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they have plans to place electronic body scanners at all airports of the United Kingdom.
tabling member printed	Lord Eames
uin	HL4661
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/02/2015 answer text <p>The further deployment of security scanners was advised in the ministerial statement of 21 November 2013.</p><p> </p><p>Work is underway with those airports which already deploy security scanners to consider the case for increasing their deployment of security scanners. The Department for Transport keeps all aviation security measures under continual review to ensure that the measures are sustainable, proportionate and practicable and any wider deployment of security scanners would be considered on a risk assessed basis. UK airports comply with EU and UK regulations for the screening of passengers and there are a number of screening methods and equipment options in use.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Kramer question first answered 10/02/2015 12:01:08 answering member 1557 label Biography information for Baroness Kramer
tabling member	2793 label Biography information for Lord Eames

172983

registered interest
date	12/01/2015
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Armed Forces: Training
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government to what extent joint training in peace-keeping methods has taken place involving the armed forces of the United Kingdom and those of the Republic of Ireland.
tabling member printed	Lord Eames
uin	HL4055
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/02/2015 answer text <p>At present the UK and the Irish Defence Force cooperate in a limted number of activities, including the UK's support to the EU training mission in Mali and the UK's efforts to counter Ebola in Sierra Leone. However, the Memorandum of Understanding signed by my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Defence and his Irish counterpart on 19 January 2015 contains provisions for greater co-operation in training, as a result of which we hope to see UK/Irish training expanded in the future, including in the area of peacekeeping.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Astor of Hever question first answered 10/02/2015 16:13:50 answering member 3428 label Biography information for Lord Astor of Hever
tabling member	2793 label Biography information for Lord Eames