Part of the debate – in the House of Lords am 2:40 pm ar 7 Mehefin 2018.
Baroness Kramer
Liberal Democrat Lords Spokesperson (Treasury and Economy)
2:40,
7 Mehefin 2018
My Lords, can I suggest that the Minister may have missed the point? In order to pay back its financing and its shareholders, Heathrow will need to fill those runways as rapidly as possible. The obvious way to do that—I am sure this is deeply embedded in Heathrow’s plans—is to suck in traffic from other airports across the UK, not just in London and the south-east but elsewhere. Will she confirm that that is indeed part of the business plan and give assurances otherwise to the various regional airports, because it will require government action to make sure that that does not happen?
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