Question follow-through · 18736
Heathrow Airport: Noise
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what plans she has to increase the length of the night period when local communities are not exposed to aircraft noise from Heathrow.
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- Answering body
- Department for Transport
- Tabled
- 14 Jul 2026
- Target answer date
- 16 Jul 2026
- Answer
- 10 Aug 2026 · 27 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
14 Jul 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what plans she has to increase the length of the night period when local communities are not exposed to aircraft noise from Heathrow.
16 Jul 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
10 Aug 2026
Answer published
The Government sets noise controls at Heathrow which include limits on the number of aircraft movements permitted between 11.30pm and 6am. The current night flight regime runs from October 2025 to October 2028. Any changes to the regime from October 2028,...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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