Select Committee · Environmental Audit Committee

Airport expansion and climate and nature targets

Status: Open Opened: 28 Mar 2025 17 recommendations 12 conclusions 1 report

The Environmental Audit Committee is undertaking an inquiry on airport expansion and climate and nature targets. In this inquiry the Committee is seeking to: establish the climate and environmental targets which Ministers ought to ensure are met under its policy to support airport expansion; examine current projections for aviation demand, for aviation emissions and for …

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Reports

1 report
Title HC No. Published Items Response
5th Report - Airport expansion and climate and nature targe… HC 831 24 Oct 2025 29 Responded

Recommendations & Conclusions

1 item
4 Recommendation 5th Report - Airport expansion and clim… Accepted in Part

Publish analysis of London airport expansion's economic impact on wider UK regions.

In response to this report the Government should set out how the planned expansion of London Airports will impact the aviation and airport sector around the rest of the UK and the economic impact and level of growth in the wider regions. We recommend that this analysis should be published …

Government response. The government stated that the DfT will develop updated analysis on the economic impacts of Heathrow expansion as part of the ANPS review and will consider changes to the Making Best Use policy for airports beyond Heathrow.

Oral evidence sessions

3 sessions
Date Witnesses
16 Jul 2025 David Silk · Department for Transport, Dr Pauleen Lane CBE · Planning Inspectorate, Hannah Newell · Department for Transport, Ian Thynne · Hillingdon Council, Mike Kane MP · Department for Transport, Peta Donkin · National Infrastructure Planning Association, Sonia Krylova · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero View ↗
18 Jun 2025 Andrew Meaney · Oxera, Dr Alex Chapman · New Economics Foundation, Dr Stuart Jenkins · University of Oxford, Duncan McCourt · Sustainable Aviation, Matthew Gorman MBE · Heathrow, Neil Robinson · Manchester Airports Group View ↗
14 May 2025 Alethea Warrington · Possible, Celeste Hicks · Aviation Environment Federation, Dr Lisa Lavia · Noise Abatement Society, Johann Beckford · Green Alliance, Paul Beckford · No 3rd Runway Coalition, Professor Rob Miller · Whittle Laboratory, University of Cambridge View ↗

Correspondence

3 letters
DateDirectionTitle
20 May 2026 To cttee Letter from the Minister of Climate relating to The Climate Change Act 2008 (I…
11 Mar 2026 To cttee Letter from Rt Hon Heidi Alexander MP, Secretary of State for Transport relati…
22 Jan 2026 From cttee Letter to Secretary of State for Transport relating to the Government response …