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The final thing I shall say, because it is relevant to the brief comments I made about Amendment 105, is that clearly the expansion of Heathrow and a third runway will inevitably have airspace impacts, slot impacts and so forth. That is part of the reason why, given that there is an extensive process under way, there will be an updated policy statement on which the House of Commons will have an opportunity to vote, and then there will be a planning process. If, as a result of all of that, some of the powers in the Bill are needed to make changes, it would seem to me that a proper process would be under way, so it would be perfectly reasonable to use some of the powers in the Bill. My amendment would simply require the Government to publish the impact of that expansion on airspace use, slots, airspace design, schedules and air traffic services to improve transparency. My guess would be that compliance with this amendment would be met by the policy statement that the Government are planning to publish.