Transport Committee - Thirteenth Report
Draft Civil Aviation Bill

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Here you can browse the report together with the Proceedings of the Committee. The published report was ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 17 January 2012.

Contents

Terms of Reference

Summary

1 Introduction

Publication of the draft bill

Pre-legislative scrutiny

2 Airport economic regulation

Why regulate?

Existing regulatory framework

Background to the proposed changes

Calls for regulatory change

Pilling Strategic Review of the CAA

Competition Commission's BAA airports inquiry

DfT consultation on economic regulation

Winter weather resilience

Proposed regulatory framework

Primary duty to air transport users

Definition of air transport users

Environmental duty

Licensing

Passenger satisfaction

Appeals mechanism

Inter-terminal competition

3 Reform of the Civil Aviation Authority

The Civil Aviation Authority

Publication provisions

Efficiency of CAA

4 Aviation security

From DfT to CAA

Division of policy-making and operations

Retaining expertise

A more flexible approach to aviation security

An outcomes-focused risk-based regime

Limits on flexibility

5 Conclusions

Reform needed

Supporting economic growth

Conclusions and recommendations

Aviation security

Annex: Comments by witnesses on specific clauses in the draft bill

Formal Minutes

Witnesses

List of printed written evidence

List of additional written evidence

List of Reports from the Committee during the current Parliament

Oral and written evidence

Tuesday 6 December 2011: Robert Siddall, Policy Director, Airport Operators Association, Emma Gilthorpe, Director of Regulation, BAA Airports Ltd, and Kyran Hanks, Strategy and Regulation Director, Gatwick Airport Ltd; Dr Barry Humphreys, Chairman, British Air Transport Association, David Hart, Head of Economic Regulation, British Airways plc, Sian Foster, General Manager, Government and External Relations, Virgin Atlantic Airways Ltd, and Paul Simmons, Director UK Market, easyJet; Brian Ross, Aviation Economics Adviser, AirportWatch, and John Moloney, Secretary, DfT Trade Union Side

Tuesday 13 December 2011: Dame Deirdre Hutton, Chair, Andrew Haines, Chief Executive, and Iain Osborne, Group Director Regulatory Policy, the Civil Aviation Authority ; Rt Hon Theresa Villiers MP, Minister of State, Jonathan Moor, Director of Aviation, and Robert Catherall, Airport Economic Regulation Policy Manager, Department for Transport

Written Evidence

Additional written evidence

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Prepared 19 January 2012