Lord Hoyle – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Transport

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Hoyle on 2016-04-19.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what action they are taking to ensure that airlines monitor the quality of cabin air.

Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon

Currently there is no evidence to suggest that continuous monitoring of aircraft cabin air would be worthwhile. The Government concluded in 2014, after a research programme on cabin air quality lasting for several years, that an international approach to any further research into the issue would be most appropriate. The European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) has launched a programme of research into this issue in 2015.

In terms of monitoring individual events, the Civil Aviation Authority’s (CAA) Mandatory Occurrence Reporting Scheme (CAP382) ensures that an event that is considered by crew to be a “safety-related event which endangers or which, if not corrected or addressed, could endanger an aircraft, its occupants or any other person” is reported and investigated.