Examination of Witnesses

Part of Civil Aviation Bill – in a Public Bill Committee at 2:46 pm on 23 February 2012.

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Richard Hatfield: The Minister has picked up two of the main reasons. The third part of this will actually be done through trials. We are not going for a big-bang approach. We will try some of the new ideas probably at less obviously risky airports or threatening environments before industry rolls them out on a wider basis. Taking the point at the start of this sequence about not doing anything unduly risky, we think this is a very sensible way to move. We want to try some of these ideas before we put the whole weight of the new approach upon them. That is the third element of why we are proposing to phase this in.