Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Debate

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Lord Broers

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Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

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Thursday 6th November 2014

(10 years ago)

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My Lords, as I said earlier, we have got to wait for the report that is due in January. We hope that we will have some meaningful information so that we can decide what action to take on this.

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My Lords, the Minister will have noticed that the French arrested three people in connection with the drones flying over their nuclear plants. Have we had similar instances, and what are our regulations with respect to these very small drones?

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My Lords, we have Air Navigation Order 2009, which prevents a person,

“causing or permitting an aircraft to endanger the safety of any person or property”,

and prohibits the flying of small unmanned aircraft closer than 150 metres to built-up areas.