Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Department: Department for Transport

Oral Answers to Questions

Tania Mathias Excerpts
Thursday 29th October 2015

(9 years ago)

Commons Chamber
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Robert Goodwill Portrait Mr Goodwill
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I think it would be premature to enter into that particular discussion. I am always in favour of jumping one’s fences when one reaches them.

Tania Mathias Portrait Dr Tania Mathias (Twickenham) (Con)
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21. How many of the 47 recommendations ignored by the Airports Commission would have benefited Scotland, and would those recommendations have increased the number of domestic flights, unlike the Heathrow option, which would decrease it?

Robert Goodwill Portrait Mr Goodwill
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One of the concerns that I have picked up around the country, outside the south-east, is that owing to the pressure for slots at both Heathrow and Gatwick at peak times, connecting flights coming in from other parts of the country are always an issue, and we are well aware of the acute need for that issue to be addressed.