Written Question·Department for Transport·UIN 6918

Airports: Construction

Tabled: 4 October 2024
Answered: 11 October 2024

Question

Alex Mayer

LabourDunstable and Leighton Buzzard

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if her Department will make an environmental impact assessment for each airport expansion plan.

Answer

Mike Kane
All airport expansion proposals that are likely to have a significant effect on the environment must already be accompanied by an environmental impact assessment, as set out in planning legislation. These assessments will be taken into account by the loca...

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