Airports

(asked on 28th November 2014) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment his Department has made of the implications for the future of the UK's long-haul regional airports of any further expansion of (a) Heathrow and (b) Gatwick airports.


Answered by
Robert Goodwill Portrait
Robert Goodwill
This question was answered on 4th December 2014

The Programme for Government rules out current airport expansion in the South East for the life of this Parliament.

To ensure our long term connectivity needs can be met, this Government established the independent Airports Commission to identify and recommend to Government options for maintaining this country’s status as an international hub for aviation. Although options for expansion have been shortlisted by the Commission for further examination, its final recommendations are not due to be published until the summer of 2015.

The Airports Commission has discussed and is consulting on how airports outside the South East might be affected by expansion at the shortlisted expansion options. The relevant documents are published by the Airports Commission on its website.

It will be for the Government of the day to fully consider the recommendation of the Airports Commission’s final report.

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