Question follow-through · 18737
Heathrow Airport: Noise
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, why the Appraisal of Sustainability of the draft Heathrow Expansion National Policy Statement only modelled one set of indicative flight paths that seek to minimise the number of newly impacted people.
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- Answering body
- Department for Transport
- Tabled
- 14 Jul 2026
- Target answer date
- 16 Jul 2026
- Answer
- 10 Aug 2026 · 27 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
14 Jul 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, why the Appraisal of Sustainability of the draft Heathrow Expansion National Policy Statement only modelled one set of indicative flight paths that seek to minimise the number of newly impacted people.
16 Jul 2026
Target answer date
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10 Aug 2026
Answer published
The analysis has used an indicative flight path design produced for the Airports Commission, which was considered the most relevant and reasonable by Department for Transport policy officials given information available at this time, in discussion with th...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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Transport: Air Pollution
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