division_name: Bill Presented &#8212; National Policy Statement: Airports
motion: <p class="indent" pid="d649.1/2" pwmotiontext="yes">That this House approves the National Policy Statement on New runway capacity and infrastructure at airports in the South East of England, which was laid before this House on <phrase class="date" code="2018-06-05">5 June</phrase> 2018.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="d652.1/4" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Heathrow expansion would mean more UK airports have vital access to a truly unrivalled network of routes...to destinations around the world.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="d659.4/4" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;I hope that the Secretary of State recognises that as a result of today&#8217;s announcement, nobody will take this Government seriously on the environment again.&#8221;&#8212;[Official Report, <phrase class="date" code="2018-01-15">15 January</phrase> 2009; Vol. 486, c. 366.]</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="d663.1/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;significant uncertainty around the results of the study and the conclusions that are drawn&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="d664.3/6" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;the Secretary of State will consider air quality impacts over the wider area likely to be affected, as well as in the vicinity of the scheme. In order to grant development consent, the Secretary of  State will need to be satisfied that, with mitigation, the scheme would be compliant with legal obligations that provide for the protection of human health and the environment.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="d666.2/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Greg will be voting against the proposal when it comes before Parliament, expected later this year&#8221;,</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="d666.2/5" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Greg is against Heathrow&#8217;s 3rd runway and will vote against it, in Parliament.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="d669.2/5" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;The Government recognises that air routes are in the first instance a commercial decision for airlines and are not in the gift of the airport operator.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="d671.0/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;The Government expects the majority of these domestic routes from a potentially expanded Heathrow to be commercially viable&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="d671.0/5" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;the Government will take action where appropriate to secure routes through the use of Public Service Obligations (PSOs)&#8221;,</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="d671.0/7" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;The Government&#8217;s expectations on domestic connectivity will be detailed as part of the Aviation Strategy Green Paper&#8221;,</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="d675.2/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;To be fair, Heathrow has engaged fully with the Scottish Government, and has signed a memorandum of understanding in relation to commitments&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="d675.2/5" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;However, all but one of the Scottish airport operators support it. So do the various Scottish chambers of commerce, because they recognise the business benefits that it can bring to Scotland, including&#8230;16,000 new jobs. That helped to sway me, and the Scottish Government have reiterated their support.&#8221;&#8212;[Official Report, <phrase class="date" code="2018-06-08">8 June</phrase> 2018; Vol. 642, c. 175.]</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="d676.3/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;The benefits of a third runway at Heathrow to our members are clear and compelling: 180,000 new jobs, doubling the number of apprenticeships to 10,000 and &#163;187 billion in economic benefits.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="d677.2/4" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Government considers it unlikely that PSOs would be appropriate for new routes from the regions to London.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="d679.0/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;We have accepted the recommendations&#8230;and will follow faithfully the Select Committee&#8217;s wishes to make sure that its recommendations are properly addressed at each stage of the process.&#8221;&#8212;[Official Report, <phrase class="date" code="2018-06-05">5 June</phrase> 2018; Vol. 642, c. 174.]</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="d697.0/6" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;We strongly support the expansion of capacity at Heathrow&#8221;,</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="d703.4/5" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Another important trend is that of rising inbound travel into Europe from emerging market economies. IATA&#8217;s forecasts&#8230;predict that over the next two decades the growth of the origin and destination (OD) market in China alone is predicted to be greater than that in the US, UK and Germany combined&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="d708.0/2" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;the relatively high landing charges and congestion at Heathrow already render it largely unattractive for charter flights, dedicated freighters&#8230;business and general aviation.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="d710.1/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;The Government has welcomed and acted upon 24 of those recommendations, disagreeing with only one.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="d713.1/2" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Hart Doors has developed new products as a direct result of Heathrow&#8217;s procurement ethos&#8230;a focus on quality has required Hart Doors to find innovative solutions to meet Heathrow&#8217;s specific needs. The knock-on impact has been the development of new products that have subsequently been supplied to over 40 airports across the world. But Heathrow is not just a customer. Hart Doors also benefits from Heathrow&#8217;s international routes bringing in customers from long-haul destinations, allowing sales into markets that otherwise would not have been possible. Because of this, Hart Doors firmly believes that if Heathrow falls behind then Britain falls behind.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="italic" pid="d719.3/7" pwmotiontext="yes">The House divided:</p>
  
  <p pid="d719.3/8" pwmotiontext="yes">Ayes 415, Noes 119.</p>