CONSERVATIVE
New Forest East

TRANSPORT – SKY MARSHALS - 06 January 2004

TRANSPORT – SKY MARSHALS - 06 January 2004

Dr Julian Lewis: Was the Secretary of State [Alistair Darling] as surprised as I was by the suggestion by a representative of the pilots that if a sky marshal is on a plane the pilot should know his identity and where he is sitting? Will the Secretary of State undertake to ensure that any protocol agreed makes it clear that pilots will never know the identity and location of sky marshals? Otherwise, the first thing that a terrorist would do would be to threaten the pilot with death unless he disclosed the whereabouts of the sky marshal.