Asked by: Lord Spicer (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Statement by Lord Callanan on 24 October (HLWS196), whether they intend to publish a new critical path showing how they will address congestion at the five London airports.
Answered by Baroness Sugg
The Government has set out its preferred option for an additional runway in the South East, which will be required by 2030. However through the recent Aviation Strategy Call for Evidence the government has consulted on the proposal to support airports throughout the UK making the best use of their existing runways, subject to environmental issues being addressed and will respond in due course.
Beyond this, a new Aviation Strategy will consider whether there is a need for a new framework to be developed to allow airports to grow sustainably, and if so what that framework should look like.