Airports: London

Debate between Baroness Kramer and Lord Sugar

Tuesday 4th November 2014 Lords Chamber

[Baroness Kramer]

My Lords, I love my time in the Department for Transport, and I can say that it is one of the most collegiate places in which I have worked.

[Lord Sugar (Lab)]

My Lords, I respectfully point out to the noble Baroness that she may not be aware that the current arrivals and departures procedures used by civil aviation mean that it matters not whether we have one extra runway at Heathrow or 10. The fact is that we cannot land enough aircraft at the moment. Will the noble Baroness inquire of the Davies commission whether it will review the standard arrivals and departures procedures and the adoption of GPS technology, which I know the CAA has just started to use, to allow further arrivals at airports?

[Baroness Kramer]

My Lords, I will go back and ask my department to have conversations with the CAA so that I can give the noble Lord a more complete answer.