Question follow-through · 53638
Aviation: Noise
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she plans to establish an independent noise authority.
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- Answering body
- Department for Transport
- Tabled
- 20 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 22 May 2025
- Answer
- 23 May 2025 · 3 calendar days after tabling
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- Draft Climate Change Act 2008 (International Aviation and International Shipping) Regulations 2026 · 24 Jun 2026
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Recorded timeline
20 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she plans to establish an independent noise authority.
22 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
23 May 2025
Answer published
The Government is committed to a strong aviation noise policy and funds the Civil Aviation Authority to provide noise advisory functions, including provision of best practice on noise mitigation, as well as funding two major noise studies. There are no cu...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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