Clause 1 - Aerodrome charges: noise and emissions
Civil Aviation Bill
11:45 am
Justine Greening (Putney, Conservative)
I absolutely agree and I thank my hon. Friend for his intervention. It is incumbent on the Government to ensure that any system that we use to measure noise is robust, and that when we discover that it is not, we are seen to be acting to address the anomalies. It might be possible to use the quota count system, but not if its estimated noises are so divergent from actual noises as measured on the ground. Perhaps there are flaws in the existing plan. Our experience legally in Wandsworth—I have taken advice on the matter myself—is that we can take into account actual noise as well as the estimated noise currently used in the quota count system, and I urge the Government to do so.