Question follow-through · 29312
Unmanned Air Systems: Freight
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department is taking steps to support the use of non-passenger-carrying drones to convey freight.
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- Answering body
- Department for Transport
- Tabled
- 5 Feb 2025
- Target answer date
- 10 Feb 2025
- Answer
- 13 Feb 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
5 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department is taking steps to support the use of non-passenger-carrying drones to convey freight.
10 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
13 Feb 2025
Answer published
This Government is supporting and accelerating the use of drone technologies for freight logistics in both the commercial and public sectors, such as for the transport of vital medical supplies within the NHS. I am committed to enabling Beyond Visual Line...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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