Later that evening, during the dinner-break debate, Baroness Anelay announced that peers would not be asked to sit late into the night, as report stage could beconcluded later that week, on Wednesday.
The airport spokesman said the investigations into the incident had been concluded and there would be no further comment on the incident from the airport authorities.
The government subsequently commissioned an independent report - headed by the Bishop of Liverpool - into the future management of forests which concluded they were a national asset and should not be sold off.