Bob Blackman – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Transport

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Bob Blackman on 2016-07-21.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if the Government will make it its policy not to take a decision on the location of an additional runway until its reviews of UK airspace and the Aviation Policy Framework have been completed.

Mr John Hayes

The Government remains fully committed to delivering the important infrastructure projects it has set out, including delivering runway capacity on the timetable set out by Sir Howard Davies.

In the coming weeks the Government will carefully consider all of the evidence before reaching a view on its preferred scheme.