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1109179

registered interest
date	02/04/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Heathrow Airport
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many applications for public service obligations he has received from regional airports for routes into Heathrow.
tabling member constituency	Middlesbrough
tabling member printed	Andy McDonald
uin	239993
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/04/2019 answer text <p>One application for a Public Service Obligation from Newquay to London Heathrow was received. This is the route which is now operating. As set out in the Department’s guidance on protecting air routes to London, a Local Authority or Devolved Administration is required to consider bids to an airport with a rail link of less than 60 minutes to London Travel Zone 1, which includes Heathrow Airport.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 09/04/2019 10:48:47 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4269 label Biography information for Andy McDonald

1109230

registered interest
date	02/04/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Heathrow Airport
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate he has made of the additional number of people will be overflown by aircraft as a result of the expansion of Heathrow.
tabling member constituency	Middlesbrough
tabling member printed	Andy McDonald
uin	240005
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/04/2019 answer text <p>The Appraisal of Sustainability that accompanies the Airports National Policy Statement provides a strategic level assessment of the potential social, economic, and environmental impacts of expansion, including on noise, based on indicative flight paths.</p><p>While taking forward an application for development consent of the Northwest runway scheme, Heathrow Airport Limited has also started to engage with the airspace change process necessary to accommodate the additional flights that expansion would enable. In the UK this process is governed by the Civil Aviation Authority, which must approve all changes to the UK’s airspace, including new flight paths. This is a seven-stage process, often taking a number of years between an airport alerting the Civil Aviation Authority to a proposed change, and the Civil Aviation Authority making a decision on whether that change should be implemented.</p><p>Heathrow Airport Limited are currently at the second stage of the Civil Aviation Authority’s Airspace Change Process. At this early stage it is not possible to identify the expected noise impacts on specific communities. These will depend on the final chosen airspace design. The second part of the process is known as ‘Option Development’, and requires the airport to develop a range of options for the proposed new airspace design. These will then be published, along with a detailed assessment, for public consultation.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 09/04/2019 11:15:44 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4269 label Biography information for Andy McDonald

1109235

registered interest
date	02/04/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Heathrow Airport
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the appropriate level of consultation that should be undertaken in relation to the proposed airspace changes caused by the expansion of Heathrow.
tabling member constituency	Middlesbrough
tabling member printed	Andy McDonald
uin	240006
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/04/2019 answer text <p>The consultation requirements for all airspace change sponsors are set out in the Air Navigation Guidance 2017 issued by the Department to the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) in October 2017. It is the responsibility of the CAA to ensure that all airspace change sponsors comply with this guidance.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 09/04/2019 10:41:21 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4269 label Biography information for Andy McDonald

1109237

registered interest
date	02/04/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Heathrow Airport
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, for what reason his Department prevented Heathrow Airport from (a) informing and (b) consulting with all communities who may be affected by airspace changes in accordance with the Planning Act 2008.
tabling member constituency	Middlesbrough
tabling member printed	Andy McDonald
uin	240007
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/04/2019 answer text <p>The Department cannot prevent Heathrow Airport from a) informing or b) consulting with communities who may be affected by airspace change. Heathrow, as the airspace change sponsor, is responsible for conducting their own consultations on airspace change. Heathrow Airport Limited has already undertaken two stages of public consultation at the scale and size that they deemed appropriate.</p><p> </p><p>As the Department understands, for their consultation on airspace design principles in early 2018, Heathrow Airport Limited advertised to over 12 million people, making it one of the largest private sector led consultations with the public in the UK’s history.</p><p> </p><p>Furthermore, Heathrow Airport Limited has now concluded a consultation on its airspace design envelopes. These are the wide geographic areas in which flight paths would be positioned in future. The exact flight paths, which will be much narrower and run through these envelopes, will not be determined until later in the airspace change process. It would be as part of Heathrow Airport Limited’s third consultation on airspace that specific proposed routes would be presented.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 09/04/2019 11:22:46 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4269 label Biography information for Andy McDonald

1109238

registered interest
date	02/04/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Heathrow Airport
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of Heathrow airport's ability to meet the Civil Aviation Authority's design principles on airspace changes as a result of precise flight paths associated with the expansion of the airport not yet being known.
tabling member constituency	Middlesbrough
tabling member printed	Andy McDonald
uin	240008
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/04/2019 answer text <p>As part of its airspace change process, the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) is responsible for assessing the individual airspace design principles put forward by an airspace change sponsor.</p><p> </p><p>In the case of Heathrow, the CAA was satisfied that the airspace design principles put forward by the airport met its regulatory requirements.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 09/04/2019 10:35:52 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4269 label Biography information for Andy McDonald

1105277

registered interest
date	26/03/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Heathrow Airport
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many people working on the airport capacity programme are (a) contingent labour, (b) supplier resource and (c) civil servants.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	237005
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/04/2019 answer text <p>The Heathrow Expansion Programme (formerly known as the Airport Capacity Programme) has the equivalent of 55.3 full time civil servants currently working on the programme. The programme does not currently employ any contingent labour.</p><p> </p><p>The civil servant team is supported by a number of suppliers that support the Government on a range of legal, commercial and financial matters.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 02/04/2019 10:39:04 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

1078265

registered interest
date	26/02/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Heathrow Airport
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they have undertaken an impact assessment of the the effect of new flight path design envelopes for Heathrow airport on (1) air quality, (2) decibel levels, and (3) house prices in (a) Chiswick, (b) Hammersmith, (c) Acton, and (d) Ealing.
tabling member printed	Lord Alton of Liverpool
uin	HL14038
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2019 answer text <p>Airports are responsible for the specific arrangements for low-level flightpaths and proposals to alter these arrangements must be approved by the Civil Aviation Authority’s (CAA) Airspace Change Process. The Department fopr Transport has oversight of this process, and published revised air navigation guidance in 2017 underpinning the process, to ensure that a full assessment of the health effects of proposals to change flight paths is carried out.</p><p> </p><p>This guidance requires airports who are seeking to make alterations to their flightpath arrangements to assess the impacts of different design options from an environmental perspective addressing issues such as aircraft noise and emissions. There is also a requirement for airports to consult with those communities who may be affected by the proposed changes to airspace and to take their views into account when finalising their proposals. This will then be taken into consideration by the CAA when making its final regulatory decision on the proposal.</p><p> </p><p>Heathrow Airport Limited is responsible for taking forward the airspace arrangements it needs and is currently at the start of the second stage of the process, which is ‘Option Development’.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Sugg question first answered 12/03/2019 14:27:26 answering member 4584 label Biography information for Baroness Sugg
tabling member	738 label Biography information for Lord Alton of Liverpool

1060693

registered interest
date	13/02/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Heathrow Airport
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he made of the potential financial effect on local authorities who may be required to subsidise Public Service Obligation routes into Heathrow.
tabling member constituency	Middlesbrough
tabling member printed	Andy McDonald
uin	220912
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/02/2019 answer text <p>The Airports National Policy Statement sets out an expectation that Heathrow will work with airlines to deliver at least 14 domestic routes. The Government expects these new domestic routes from an expanded Heathrow to be commercially viable with incentives offered by the airport operator</p><p>The Aviation 2050 consultation is also seeking views on reserving slots for domestic connections, which would not require public funding. If commercial incentives and slot reservations do not deliver on our expectations, then the Government may consider imposing Public Service Obligations.</p><p>The Government expects that significant direct financial support for PSOs into Heathrow following expansion is unlikely to be required, due to the commercial incentives in place for airlines to run routes into the UK’s primary hub airport. If an application for a PSO did require Government or local authority subsidy, this would then be considered as part of our evaluation.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman grouped question UIN 220913 220914 question first answered 22/02/2019 13:05:54 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4269 label Biography information for Andy McDonald

1060695

registered interest
date	13/02/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Heathrow Airport
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what discussions he has had with local authorities on their ability to provide subsidies for (a) additional and (b) future flight connections into Heathrow.
tabling member constituency	Middlesbrough
tabling member printed	Andy McDonald
uin	220913
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/02/2019 answer text <p>The Airports National Policy Statement sets out an expectation that Heathrow will work with airlines to deliver at least 14 domestic routes. The Government expects these new domestic routes from an expanded Heathrow to be commercially viable with incentives offered by the airport operator</p><p>The Aviation 2050 consultation is also seeking views on reserving slots for domestic connections, which would not require public funding. If commercial incentives and slot reservations do not deliver on our expectations, then the Government may consider imposing Public Service Obligations.</p><p>The Government expects that significant direct financial support for PSOs into Heathrow following expansion is unlikely to be required, due to the commercial incentives in place for airlines to run routes into the UK’s primary hub airport. If an application for a PSO did require Government or local authority subsidy, this would then be considered as part of our evaluation.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman grouped question UIN 220912 220914 question first answered 22/02/2019 13:05:54 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4269 label Biography information for Andy McDonald

1060696

registered interest
date	13/02/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Heathrow Airport
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the number of regional connections into Heathrow that will require (a) direct and (b) indirect funding contributions.
tabling member constituency	Middlesbrough
tabling member printed	Andy McDonald
uin	220914
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/02/2019 answer text <p>The Airports National Policy Statement sets out an expectation that Heathrow will work with airlines to deliver at least 14 domestic routes. The Government expects these new domestic routes from an expanded Heathrow to be commercially viable with incentives offered by the airport operator</p><p>The Aviation 2050 consultation is also seeking views on reserving slots for domestic connections, which would not require public funding. If commercial incentives and slot reservations do not deliver on our expectations, then the Government may consider imposing Public Service Obligations.</p><p>The Government expects that significant direct financial support for PSOs into Heathrow following expansion is unlikely to be required, due to the commercial incentives in place for airlines to run routes into the UK’s primary hub airport. If an application for a PSO did require Government or local authority subsidy, this would then be considered as part of our evaluation.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman grouped question UIN 220912 220913 question first answered 22/02/2019 13:05:55 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4269 label Biography information for Andy McDonald