Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is the timetable for deciding whether to allow a third runway at Heathrow.

A number of important decisions on airport capacity were taken by the Government in December, including to accept the case for expansion in the South-East. However, we must take the time to get the decision right on a preferred scheme. The Government is further considering the environmental impacts and the best possible measures to mitigate the impacts of expansion, this work will conclude by summer 2016.