Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps the Government is taking to ensure that the proposed plans to construct a third runway at Heathrow Airport benefits North East England.

Expansion at Heathrow will benefit the North East, both specifically through the commitment to reserve about 15 per cent of new slots being used for domestic routes, and more generally through the new economic growth and thousands of new jobs that Heathrow has estimated will be created across the country.

Following designation of the Airports National Policy Statement on 26 June, the Department for Transport published the Relationship Framework Document which sets out how the Department and Heathrow Airport Limited will work together in future, collaboratively and constructively to deliver the strategic objectives and benefits of expansion. The Relationship Framework Document can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/heathrow-airport-expansion-relationship-framework-document