Airports Capacity

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Communities and Local Government – in the House of Commons at 4:54 pm on 14 December 2015.

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Photo of Patrick McLoughlin Patrick McLoughlin The Secretary of State for Transport 4:54, 14 December 2015

As a distinguished Chair of a Select Committee, my hon. Friend expects his Committee to be listened to with the respect that should be given to a Select Committee. The Environmental Audit Committee recommended that the Government take more time to address air quality, and stated:

“On air quality, the Government will need to re-examine the Commission’s findings in the light of its finalised air quality strategy.”

That report was published on 26 November. Today is 14 December, and even with the best will in the world, it would have been impossible to have read and responded to all the points in that report in those few weeks. I am giving another Select Committee the kind of respect that my hon. Friend would expect for his own Committee.