PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Aviation: Exhaust Emissions (30 October 2015)

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the effect of emissions containing organo-phosphates produced by aircraft engines on airline and airport staff and passengers.

Asked by:
Matthew Pennycook (Labour)

The Department commissioned four scientific studies into cabin air in 2007. All studies commissioned by the Department were submitted to the Committee on Toxicity of Chemicals in Food, Consumer Products and the Environment for consideration in 2012. The Committee published a position paper on cabin air in December 2013, which can be accessed in full electronically at: http://cot.food.gov.uk/sites/default/files/cot/cotpospapcabin.pdf.

In addition to the Department’s studies, the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) has launched a preliminary in-flight cabin air measurement campaign in spring 2015, the results of which are expected in autumn 2016.

Answered by:
Sir Robert Goodwill (Conservative)
9 November 2015