Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the reasons were for not including an updated assessment of domestic connections to the regions from an expanded Heathrow in the revised draft Airports National Policy Statement, published on 24 October 2017.

The department published updated aviation forecasts alongside the consultation on the revised draft NPS on 24 October 2017. This included an updated assessment of the domestic connections from Heathrow airport, with and without expansion.

The revised draft Airports NPS maintains the Government expectation that any expansion will deliver an increase in the number of UK routes; and that Government will hold Heathrow Airport to account on this. The document also sets out a number of potential domestic routes that may be delivered under expansion.