Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she has undertaken analysis of whether implementation of the recommendations of the Independent Review of NATS (En Route) plc’s Performance on 28 August 2023 would have (a) prevented and (b) mitigated the NATS technical incident on 8 September 2026.

We are still in the process of understanding the impact of the 8 September NATS outage across the UK, including its impact on airlines. I recognise the significant disruption this outage caused for passengers, airlines, and airports. The Government is taking steps to ensure the right lessons are learnt. This includes asking the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) to conduct an independent review into the incidents.