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Lords Grand Committee

18 June 2026

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Peers open scrutiny of Clause 4 and then Clauses 4–6 of the Civil Aviation Bill, focusing on consultation obligations, impact assessment and cryptographic audit trail proposals, the scope and accountability of new ministerial direction powers, and revised CAA charging powers before related amendments are withdrawn or disposed of.

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Clauses 4–6 — consultation duties and charging powers

15:26

Clause 4 opened — introduction of consultation and charging amendments

15:26

Opening of clause 4 and introduction of Amendment 60

15:26

Committee procedure and opening of clause 4

15:26

Amendment 60 — mandatory consultation and impact assessments

15:45

Linked amendments 61–65 — consultation scope, audit trail, cost allocation and general aviation

19:38

Consultation duties and pilot safety input (Amendments 61–62)

23:59

Amendment 61 — government as arbiter and need for short consultation

23:59

Amendment 62 — GPS‑based airspace, safety and pilot licensing impacts

26:24

Amendment 62 — role of BALPA and ongoing consultation

32:03

Clause 6 — audit trail and charging powers

33:02

Amendment 63 — immutable, technology‑neutral audit trail

33:02

Amendment 65 — protecting general aviation from disproportionate charges

35:13

Amendment 65 — drones, GA and proportional charging

39:09

Clauses 4–6 — direction powers, consultation and charging

41:53

Community consultation and general aviation interests

41:53

Support for targeted community consultation on airspace changes

41:53

General aviation’s role and airspace access under Amendment 65

45:16

Technology, safety advances and proportional charges for GA

48:26

Ministerial direction powers, consultation safeguards and charging

51:21

Clause 4 direction power — alignment with existing consultations

51:21

IATA’s objections to Clause 6 charging and use of 'person'

53:45

Amendments 16 and 61 — time‑bound local consultation

56:44

Opposition support for Amendment 60 — guarding against backdoor expansion

59:54

Opposition — direction powers and pilot consultation

01:02:49

Opposition frontbench: delay, broad direction powers and consultation duties

01:02:49

Amendment 62 — pilots’ consultation role in automated airspace

01:06:33

Peers and Minister — charging powers, safeguards and technology

01:09:20

Amendment 64 — Moylan on "persons" and charging test

01:09:20

Minister — safeguards, CAP 1616 and direction powers

01:12:50

Amendment 63 — audit trail, CAA portal and blockchain

01:17:53

Amendments 64 and 65 — charging "persons", drones and general aviation

01:19:31

Conclusion on clauses 4–6 and amendments outcome

01:24:48

Opposition wrap-up on clauses 4–6 concerns

01:24:48

Chair: withdrawal of amendments and agreement of clauses 4–6 and Schedule 2

01:26:56

Operational services — air ambulances, navigation and airport slots

01:29:31

Air ambulances, EGNOS and airfield advisory team

01:29:31

Proponent — air ambulances, EGNOS and advisory team

01:29:31

Amendment 65B — national framework for air ambulance operations and training

01:29:31

Amendment 65C — EGNOS satellite navigation and island connectivity

01:34:32

Amendment 102A — restoring the airfield advisory team

01:39:15

Peers’ positions — support for amendments and Brexit‑aligned navigation alternatives

01:40:18

Support for Amendment 102A — airfield advisory team

01:40:18

Support for Berkeley’s group — air ambulances and small airfields

01:42:02

Opposition backing for 65B/65C — air ambulances and EGNOS

01:44:42

EGNOS alternatives and post‑Brexit stance

01:46:55

Minister’s reply — air ambulance regime, navigation review and advisory team

01:48:27

Minister — response on air ambulances, EGNOS review and advisory team

01:48:27

Lord Berkeley — withdrawal of 65B and request for EGNOS meeting

01:51:54

Chair — disposal of Amendments 65B and 65C; move to slots

01:52:31

Airport slots — government powers and safeguards

01:52:48

Government powers over airport slots — amendments 66, 68 and 7

01:52:48

Amendments 66 and 68 — scope of government powers over slots

01:52:48

Amendment 7 and regional hub connectivity — Secretary of State’s role

01:59:06

Slot regulation amendments — CAA oversight and transparency

02:06:06

Amendment 73 — CAA oversight of Airport Coordination Limited

02:06:06

Amendments 74 and 75 — transparent slot records and policy tests

02:09:27

Moylan’s Amendments 70–72 — consultation and scrutiny of slot powers

02:18:14

Stakeholder positions — independence, environment and regional connectivity

02:11:59

Foster — defend independent slot coordinator, reject SoS role

02:11:59

Opposition frontbench — slots, expansion and connectivity

02:16:33

Minister and peers — emergency slot powers and regional connectivity

02:22:19

Minister — defence of clause 7 and limits on regional slot mandates

02:22:19

Minister — emergency slot powers and parliamentary procedure

02:27:10

Empey and Grayling — regional slots power and Henry VIII concerns

02:32:35

Heathrow expansion — use of Bill powers and climate constraints

02:37:29

Heathrow expansion amendments — powers, climate and financing

02:37:29

Bill powers and Heathrow expansion conditions

02:37:29

Amendments 69 and 105 — preventing backdoor airport expansion

02:37:29

Amendment 110 — Heathrow expansion impacts and financing risk

02:40:04

Amendment 114 — climate duty for CAA and Secretary of State

02:47:30

Heathrow expansion — support for growth but concern over current scheme

02:52:08

Lord Moylan — Heathrow NPS, amendments and financing risks

02:54:11

New Airports NPS — legal saga and stance on anti‑expansion amendments

02:54:11

Moylan — Heathrow’s financing risks and M25 costs

02:57:55

Heathrow expansion, NPS framework and climate constraints

03:05:38

Heathrow expansion, NPS process and climate amendments

03:05:38

Minister — Bill not a route to airport expansion; response to Amendments 69 and 105

03:05:38

Minister — Heathrow Expansion NPS process and rejection of Amendment 110

03:09:01

Minister — opposition to climate‑based capacity cap (Amendment 114)

03:12:38

Opposition withdraws Amendment 114; Clause 7 agreed

03:13:44

CAA rule‑making powers, priorities and environmental duties

03:15:29

CAA rule‑making powers — scope, safeguards and AI

03:15:29

CAA rule‑making powers — Moylan’s challenge and pilot consultation

03:15:29

Amendment 76 et al — Moylan challenges CAA rule‑making powers

03:15:29

Amendment 78 — pilots’ consultation on new CAA powers

03:27:21

Peers’ amendments on CAA powers, safeguards and AI

03:31:35

Amendment 96 — proposal for an AI aviation standard

03:31:35

Amendments 89, 95 and 118 — SoS–CAA priorities, transparency and flight time limits

03:34:58

Harper backs Moylan — limits on CAA rule‑making

03:41:38

Amendment 80 — disability impact assessments for CAA rules

03:45:16

CAA rule‑making powers and priorities framework

03:48:57

Minister and Moylan — CAA rule‑making powers and priorities document

03:48:57

Minister — case for delegating aviation rules to CAA

03:48:57

Minister — response on affirmative procedure, SoS principles and BALPA consultation

03:51:21

Minister — consultation directions and disability duty

03:53:42

Minister — priorities "document" vs guidance and regional connectivity

03:55:14

Minister — parliamentary oversight of priorities document and AI standard proposal

03:57:48

Minister — CAA rulebook publication, paper copies and flight time review

03:59:40

Moylan — criticism of CAA–Secretary of State power balance

04:02:53

Chair and peers — CAA rule‑making and seventh carbon budget

04:05:07

Chair — disposal of rule‑making amendments and call of Amendment 84

04:05:07

Amendment 84 — Harper on seventh carbon budget and CAA guidance

04:05:42

Harper — risk of demand management and judicialising net zero

04:09:19

Environmental duties, SAF mandate and airport regulation

04:16:10

Environmental amendments, SAF costs and ministerial response

04:16:10

Amendments 106, 107 and 115 — environmental accountability and private aviation

04:16:10

Support for Lib Dem green amendments and call for SAF cost review

04:23:19

Minister — response on climate, SAF and private aviation amendments

04:27:17

Harper withdraws Amendment 84; Chair clears remaining clause 8–9 amendments

04:33:56

Airports business rates and CAA competition powers

04:36:53

Amendment 108 — business rates revaluation impact on airports

04:36:53

Amendment 108 — call for SoS assessment of rates and regional connectivity

04:42:02

Amendments 116 and 117 — CAA competition duty and Heathrow remedies

04:43:57

Minister — business rates relief, CAA competition role and Heathrow powers

04:50:36

Withdrawal of Amendment 108 and disposal of remaining amendments

04:58:01

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Lords Grand Committee

18 June 2026

Lords Grand Committee Thu, 18 Jun 2026 Actual start 12:00 House of Lords

15:26 - 15:45

Speaker 1

My Lords, if there is a division in the chamber while we are sitting, the committee will adjourn as soon as the division bells are rung and resume after 10 minutes. Grand Committee on the Civil Aviation (Consumer Protection and Regulatory Reform) Bill. In clause 4, amendment 60, Earl Russell.

15:45 - 17:10

Speaker 2

Thank you, my Lords. It's a pleasure to start this second day of Grand Committee on this bill, and I open this group on airspace modernization, consultation, and charging, and I move amendment 60 standing in the name of my noble friend Baroness Grender, who is unfortunately unable to be here today.

My Lords, this amendment is straightforward. It seeks simply to insert a new subsection requiring that before the Secretary of State makes any directions under clause 4, three things must happen first: a consultation with persons and communities likely to be affected, an environmental impact assessment, and a noise impact assessment.

On these benches, we feel these additions is a basic requirement of legitimate decision-making where the power may have serious local consequences. The clause for directions on airspace redesign is not merely just a technical tidying-up exercise. It could be used to alter and can be used to alter flight concentrations, runway throughput, and the intensity and timing of overflight experienced on the ground. A ministerial direction made under this clause is capable in substance of facilitating additional capacity without ever being labeled as such.

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