The Committee deliberated.

Draft Report (The Work of the Civil Aviation Authority), proposed by the Chairman, brought up and read.

Ordered, That the Chairman's draft Report be read a second time, paragraph by paragraph.

Paragraphs 1 to 141 read and agreed to.

Paragraph 142 read, as follows:

"During the course of our inquiry, a number of witnesses again raised the monopoly issue. In June 2006, BAA accepted a takeover bid from a consortium led by Ferrovial, a Spanish construction company. At the same time, the Office of Fair Trading launched a market study of UK airports, including the dominant position of BAA, designed to determine whether or not to make a market investigation reference to the Competition Commission. The Office of Fair Trading expects to complete the study by late 2006. We remain of the opinion that the BAA monopoly should be broken up. We are pleased to note that the Office of Fair Trading has launched an investigation into the UK airports market and we hope it will report its conclusions sooner rather than later."

Amendment proposed, in line 6, to leave out "We remain of the opinion that the BAA monopoly should be broken up".—(Mr David Wilshire.)

Question put, That the Amendment be made.

The Committee divided.

Ayes, 1 Mr David Wilshire

Noes, 6 Clive Efford Mrs Louise Ellman Mr Robert Goodwill Mr Eric Martlew Mr Lee Scott Mr Graham Stringer

Paragraph agreed to.

Paragraphs 143 to 170 agreed to.

Resolved, That the Report be the Thirteenth Report of the Committee to the House.

Ordered, That the Chairman do make the Report to the House.

Ordered, That the provisions of Standing Order No.134 (Select committees (reports)) be applied to the Report.

Several Papers were ordered to be appended to the Minutes of Evidence.

Ordered, That the appendices to the Minutes of Evidence taken before the Committee be reported to the House.—(The Chairman.)

[Adjourned till Wednesday 1 November at 2.30 pm.