Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate she has made of the level of public funding needed to improve surface access to Heathrow Airport in the context of the proposed expansion.

The Government has been clear that any expansion at Heathrow must be affordable, delivered in the best interests of passengers and privately financed, including the surface access improvements required.

The draft Heathrow Expansion National Policy Statement, published last week, requires any promoter of expansion to meet the full cost of associated works to the strategic and local road network, and to develop a surface access strategy setting out how transport improvements, including any rail schemes needed to support the proposed mode share targets, will be funded.