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Airport Capacity and Airspace Policy — House of Commons, 2017-02-02
Topic: Transportation
Christopher Stephen Grayling (Conservative, Centre-right): The truth is that that is a constraint. There is still capacity around London’s airports, and there are some first-rate regional airports near the hon. Gentleman’s constituency. The east midlands and south Yorkshire have access to good airports in Leeds Bradford and East Midlands, both of which have done phenomenally well in recent times and are providing more and more international links. However, we are constrained by the fact that the decision was not taken a long time ago, which is why we need to get on with it now.
Airport Capacity and Airspace Policy — House of Commons, 2017-02-02
Topic: Transportation
Thomas Georg John Tugendhat (Conservative, Centre-right): I have written to the Secretary of State on numerous occasions, so he will know well that airspace management over parts of west Kent, particularly of night flights, is becoming a serious problem for many constituents. While you, Mr Speaker, can enjoy your nights undisturbed, my constituents sadly do not have that luxury.
Airport Capacity and Airspace Policy — House of Commons, 2017-02-02
Topic: Transportation
Christopher Stephen Grayling (Conservative, Centre-right): That is an important point. I have been examining the issue and it is being dealt with in some innovative ways around the country. We will be able to glean from the consultation the public’s views on how we can best manage night flights to minimise the impact on communities. Being able to follow more exact flight paths will make a significant difference and will address some of the issues that I have seen in the many communications that my hon. Friend has received from his constituents that have been passed to me.
Airport Capacity and Airspace Policy — House of Commons, 2017-02-02
Topic: Transportation
Christopher Stephen Grayling (Conservative, Centre-right): Cardiff airport has been a great success story, and I pay tribute to all those involved. The hon. Member for Sheffield South East (Mr Betts) asked about what will happen in the coming years, and we are fortunate in having some very good regional airports that can not only take up the slack in the coming years but will be a crucial part of our overall airport strategy in the future.
Airport Capacity and Airspace Policy — House of Commons, 2017-02-02
Topic: Transportation
Ben Howlett (Conservative, Centre-right): As the Heathrow decision goes ahead, demand and inward investment in the west of England, bringing jobs and growth, will ever expand. Can my right hon. Friend confirm that our excellent west of England mayoral candidate, Tim Bowles, will be able to join me and colleagues from the west of England in expressing our views on joining the western main line to Heathrow?
Airport Capacity and Airspace Policy — House of Commons, 2017-02-02
Topic: Transportation
Christopher Stephen Grayling (Conservative, Centre-right): As my hon. Friend knows, I have received extensive lobbying from his constituency and elsewhere, and from Tim, saying that that is an important part of what we are doing. Rail access to Heathrow will be a crucial part of ensuring that we can deliver the growth that we anticipate without having the impacts on the local environment that massively increased road traffic might generate. I assure my hon. Friend that we are working very hard on that.
Airport Capacity and Airspace Policy — House of Commons, 2017-02-02
Topic: Transportation
Christopher Stephen Grayling (Conservative, Centre-right): It is interesting that the hon. Gentleman says that, because of course Network Rail is in the public sector and it was a Network Rail problem. On the subject of airport expansion and the importance of ensuring that in the constituency of the hon. Member for Richmond Park (Sarah Olney) and in other affected areas we do the right thing for local people, I assure her constituents that we will work immensely hard to listen to their views in the coming weeks and to look at ways of minimising the impact of airport expansion. It is something that we need to do very carefully and with sensitivity to those communities, but I simply do not accept TfL’s figures. Heathrow airport will have an obligation to meet the targets that it has set, but I am afraid that TfL’s estimate of £19 billion or £20 billion is just plucked from thin air. I see no evidence whatever to support that estimate.
Airport Capacity and Airspace Policy — House of Commons, 2017-02-02
Topic: Transportation
Kevin John Foster (Conservative, Centre-right): I welcome the broad thrust of the statement, given the vital role that Heathrow plays as the hub airport not just for London but for the whole south-west of England. Will the Secretary of State reassure me that there will be proper co-ordination between this airport strategy and delivering the type of infrastructure, such as a resilient railway and the dualling of the A303, that will be vital to making sure that this is a success?
Airport Capacity and Airspace Policy — House of Commons, 2017-02-02
Topic: Transportation
Christopher Stephen Grayling (Conservative, Centre-right): I can absolutely give that assurance. My hon. Friend knows that we are now moving ahead with the development process on the A303. I have made funding available for the next stage of work to develop the right solution to the problems at Dawlish. Of course, the other thing that will benefit the south-west is improved aviation links. Newquay airport, which is a bit further west than his constituency, is one of the regional airports that will benefit from that increased connectivity.
Airport Capacity and Airspace Policy — House of Commons, 2017-02-02
Topic: Transportation
Christopher Stephen Grayling (Conservative, Centre-right): No, I am not passing the buck to anyone else. If the hon. Gentleman looks at the plans for improved public transport connectivity around Heathrow, as I described, he will see that Crossrail, HS2, an improved Piccadilly line, the south-west rail access and the western rail access will entail the kind of transformation to access that Heathrow has never seen before. My belief is that, with tight commitments on the airport developers to ensure that they meet their promises, we can deliver this with lower-noise aircraft, a smart compensation package and benefits for the United Kingdom.
Airport Capacity and Airspace Policy — House of Commons, 2017-02-02
Topic: Transportation
Robert John Blackman (Conservative, Centre-right): The economic case for HS2 is partly built on the fact that we would reduce the number of internal flights within the UK, yet reports suggest a dramatic increase in their number when Heathrow expands. Can my right hon. Friend clarify the position? What commitment is he making to expand regional airports so that they have international flights and people do not have to come to Heathrow?
Airport Capacity and Airspace Policy — House of Commons, 2017-02-02
Topic: Transportation
Christopher Stephen Grayling (Conservative, Centre-right): On that latter point, if my hon. Friend takes a look at what some regional airports have achieved, he will see extraordinary amounts of international connectivity. I went to Bristol airport recently to open its expanded terminal building, which is going to serve more than 100 international destinations. Our regional airports are already a great success story, and this is meeting an additional need, not replacing what they do. The great benefit from HS2 is not only the connectivity it generates, but the capacity it releases. We have such congestion on the rest of our rail network. In his part of the world, HS2 alone will deliver thousands of extra commuter seats into Euston in the morning rush hour, in an area that is already heavily congested, by taking those express trains off the existing route. So the business case for HS2 is much broader.
Airport Capacity and Airspace Policy — House of Commons, 2017-02-02
Topic: Transportation
Christopher Stephen Grayling (Conservative, Centre-right): Absolutely, that is important. Those airports are all a central part of our future strategy for aviation and for transport generally. The expansion of Heathrow will have direct benefits for Northern Ireland—for example, Heathrow is recommending a route to Belfast City. It is important that we maintain the best possible links from Northern Ireland to our principal hub airport and through it to those international destinations which are important to businesses in Northern Ireland.
Airport Capacity and Airspace Policy — House of Commons, 2017-02-02
Topic: Transportation
Christopher Paul Davies (Conservative, Centre-right): One may wonder why a Member who represents the hills and valleys of mid-Wales should be speaking in this debate. It is simply because my constituents will benefit from the expansion of Heathrow. Therefore, may I ask my right hon. Friend to proceed as quickly as possible to development?
Airport Capacity and Airspace Policy — House of Commons, 2017-02-02
Topic: Transportation
Christopher Stephen Grayling (Conservative, Centre-right): My hon. Friend makes an important point, as the impacts of this proposal will be felt up and down the country. It will be felt in small businesses producing equipment for the new airport. It will be felt in colleges that are training apprentices to work on the new airport. It will affect the regional economies of England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. He is absolutely right in what he says and I am grateful to him for his support.
Airport Capacity and Airspace Policy — House of Commons, 2017-02-02
Topic: Labor
Christopher Stephen Grayling (Conservative, Centre-right): The hon. Gentleman makes his case well, but he would not expect me to become involved in a dispute of this kind. I simply say that I very much hope that BA and the union will be able to reach a resolution that is mutually acceptable.
Airport Capacity and Airspace Policy — House of Commons, 2017-02-02
Topic: Environment
Christopher Stephen Grayling (Conservative, Centre-right): We have, of course, taken careful note of the High Court decision and such a plan is in development at the moment, but we are doing things in the meantime. In the autumn statement, we released hundreds of millions of pounds of additional funding for low-emission vehicles, including low-emission buses, and more money for charging points. This is clearly something we have to deal with now. We have to find the right way to migrate the nature of the cars and other vehicles on our roads to a point where they are causing much less of a pollution problem than they do at the moment.
Airport Capacity and Airspace Policy — House of Commons, 2017-02-02
Topic: Transportation
Christopher Stephen Grayling (Conservative, Centre-right): The hon. Gentleman identifies clearly the inconsistencies we all too often see in policies coming from both the Scottish National party and the Green party, and he makes his point articulately. On the emissions around Heathrow, as I said earlier, it is much more an issue of land transport—cars, buses, trucks and vans—than of aircraft. That is why we have to focus our efforts on dealing with the challenge on our roads rather than focusing on aviation. The issue will be dealt with and the pressure taken off Heathrow by our sorting out the issue on the roads.
Airport Capacity and Airspace Policy — House of Commons, 2017-02-02
Topic: International Affairs
Christopher Stephen Grayling (Conservative, Centre-right): I can confirm that no talks have yet taken place, but I am expecting to meet my US counterpart in around a month’s time. Discussions took place with the previous Administration and there is good will on both sides to make sure that there is no hiatus in transatlantic air traffic.
Airport Capacity and Airspace Policy — House of Commons, 2017-02-02
Topic: Transportation
Christopher Stephen Grayling (Conservative, Centre-right): I am looking carefully at how best to do this, because I do not want a situation in which we retain a proportion of slots, but they are always at 11 o’clock at night. It might not be simply about slots; it might be about getting the right mechanism to make sure that there is the necessary capacity to ensure that connectivity. I probably will not say simply that it will be x slots; we will want to make sure that the package is right to ensure the fair treatment of regional airports.
Airport Capacity and Airspace Policy — House of Commons, 2017-02-02
Topic: Environment
Christopher Stephen Grayling (Conservative, Centre-right): It is very clear that the airport will not be able to secure its development consent order if it cannot demonstrate its ability to meet those targets. It is binding: it will have to achieve them. On the broader strategy, after we have left the European Union, the air quality standards in place in this country will be UK air quality standards, but it is not the Government’s intention to reduce air quality standards; it is our intention to deliver a strategy that cleans up our air, which we will do shortly.
Airport Capacity and Airspace Policy — House of Commons, 2017-02-02
Topic: Technology
Christopher Stephen Grayling (Conservative, Centre-right): I can confirm to the hon. Lady that we are indeed consulting on the best regulatory framework for drones. I suspect that that will inevitably lead to some form of licensing for drones of a scale that could be a threat to the public and some limitations on where they can be used. We are listening to the views of the public, the drone development industry and others with a relevant interest to work out the best framework.
Airport Capacity and Airspace Policy — House of Commons, 2017-02-02
Topic: Transportation
Christopher Stephen Grayling (Conservative, Centre-right): It is certainly my hope and aim that we can have that vote by the end of the year, because I want to get on with this as quickly as possible. Belfast City is one of the airports identified by Heathrow as being a likely extra route, and certainly it is right that Northern Ireland should have a proper slice of this cake when it is there.
Exiting the EU: New Partnership — House of Commons, 2017-02-02
Topic: International Affairs
William Nigel Paul Cash (Conservative, Centre-right): I deeply welcome my right hon. Friend’s statement and the White Paper, which is most emphatically in our national interest. Tomorrow, the Heads of Government of the 27 other member states will convene in Malta, where they propose to make a declaration about their vision for the future of Europe. President Tusk’s letter of 31 January does not bode well. Will my right hon. Friend encourage the 27 to recognise that by promoting ever closer, more centralised and unreformed political union, they are creating the very circumstances that they claim to want to avoid and depriving themselves of the trust of the citizens they claim to represent? They are effectively going in the wrong direction.
Exiting the EU: New Partnership — House of Commons, 2017-02-02
Topic: International Affairs
David Michael Davis (Conservative, Centre-right): My hon. Friend has led on this issue for about 30 years and has always had an honourable, straightforward and insightful view of the European Union. We have said that we are going to be a full member until the moment we leave, and that means being a responsible member. We will exercise our influence over what we think is the best interest of the European Union until the moment we leave, because we want the European Union to be strong, stable and effective. In these times of difficult international relations, we need the EU as an anchor, and that is the policy that we will pursue.
Exiting the EU: New Partnership — House of Commons, 2017-02-02
Topic: International Affairs
David Michael Davis (Conservative, Centre-right): The hon. Gentleman says that this has taken seven months, but we have been in the European Union for 40 years. This is about reversing—well, not reversing but amending—and dealing with 40 years’ accumulated policy and law. He mentioned Second Reading, but that Bill will trigger the process. It does no more than to put into effect the people’s decision of 23 June last year, so I cannot see how he thinks the publication of the White Paper after Second Reading is problematic. There will be any number of occurrences in this House when the 50-odd Scottish National party Members will have a chance to hold the Government to account, to make their views known on policy, and to put forward the interests of Scotland, whether during the passage of the great repeal Bill or that of the other primary and secondary legislation that will follow on from it. I do not think he can complain about an absence of democracy in this respect.
Exiting the EU: New Partnership — House of Commons, 2017-02-02
Topic: Foreign Trade
David Michael Davis (Conservative, Centre-right): Let me just finish my answer. The point is made in the policy paper that we want to have a customs agreement. That will follow directly as a result of the free trade agreement. If we are successful in getting low or zero tariffs in the free trade agreement, and no non-tariff barriers, we should succeed in getting a customs agreement that reflects that, and that makes it very straightforward to continue trading with Europe.
Exiting the EU: New Partnership — House of Commons, 2017-02-02
Topic: International Affairs
Peter James Bottomley (Conservative, Centre-right): I think it would be wise to get to the end of the negotiations before we draw any conclusions on what conclusions we have come to. That would be the meaningful way to do it, although I think that those who use the word "meaningful" four times in a speech are being rather meaningless. The key point is that what we are after is the same thing that European Union members are after—arrangements that are good for them, good for us and good for the world.
Exiting the EU: New Partnership — House of Commons, 2017-02-02
Topic: Foreign Trade
Edward Julian Egerton Leigh (Conservative, Centre-right): On page 49 of the White Paper, the Government state: "We have an open mind on how we implement new customs arrangements with the EU" It is important to be admirably clear so that everyone knows where we stand, so will the Secretary of State confirm for the avoidance of doubt that we are not only leaving the EU and the single market, but definitely leaving the customs union?
Exiting the EU: New Partnership — House of Commons, 2017-02-02
Topic: Labor
David Michael Davis (Conservative, Centre-right): The hon. Lady is absolutely right. The Government’s approach is to maintain every single piece of employment protection that exists now, which incidentally is much better than that of most European countries, and to enhance it. There should be no concern about that at all.
Exiting the EU: New Partnership — House of Commons, 2017-02-02
Topic: International Affairs
David Michael Davis (Conservative, Centre-right): I am not familiar with that commentary, but I welcome the hon. Gentleman’s view about the chapter on the relationship with Ireland. One of the most important parts of the last seven month’s preparation has been striking a relationship with Ireland that ensures that we underpin the peace process, maintain the stability of Northern Ireland, keep an open border, and so on. It is incumbent on the British Government to be as helpful as we can to the Irish Government because they are in the most difficult position, so that is what we are doing.
Exiting the EU: New Partnership — House of Commons, 2017-02-02
Topic: Foreign Trade
Geoffrey Robert Clifton-Brown (Conservative, Centre-right): Paragraph 8.43 of the White Paper makes it clear that we want to leave the customs union so that we can negotiate free trade agreements "around the world." If we leave the customs union, we will be bound by an external tariff unless we negotiate otherwise. Is that the correct position?
Exiting the EU: New Partnership — House of Commons, 2017-02-02
Topic: Foreign Trade
David Michael Davis (Conservative, Centre-right): Generally speaking, a most favoured nation arrangement applies under WTO rules, but countries are generally allowed to make free trade agreements at whatever level they seek. We want to ensure that as many of the existing EU free trade agreements carry straight over, which will also be lower than MFN rates.
Exiting the EU: New Partnership — House of Commons, 2017-02-02
Topic: International Affairs
Bernard Christison Jenkin (Conservative, Centre-right): When the Government serve notice on the European Union under article 50, will they take that opportunity to frame the negotiation by making it clear that we expect to agree the framework of our future relationship, as specified in article 50? Otherwise, we will effectively be negotiating the divorce arrangements in the dark, and the European Union would not be observing the principle of sincere co-operation.
Exiting the EU: New Partnership — House of Commons, 2017-02-02
Topic: International Affairs
David Michael Davis (Conservative, Centre-right): My hon. Friend refers to the need to negotiate ongoing arrangements in parallel with the departure arrangements. As he says, article 50 refers to having regard to ongoing arrangements, and a negotiation on departure arrangements cannot be concluded before the ongoing arrangements have been concluded. I have already made that point to Michel Barnier, my opposite number, and I think the Prime Minister has made that point to a number of her opposite numbers around the European Union. This will be the first issue that we need to resolve at the beginning of the negotiations, so my hon. Friend is quite right.
Exiting the EU: New Partnership — House of Commons, 2017-02-02
Topic: Government Operations
Ben Howlett (Conservative, Centre-right): I want to put it on the record that I am extremely pleased that the White Paper has been published, and I thank the Secretary of State and his team for listening to hon. Friends and our calls for a White Paper. Will he join me in sending a message to my constituents to feed in their views? In the spirit of listening to his hon. Friends, will he also clarify whether the Government will consider formal reporting back to the House?
Exiting the EU: New Partnership — House of Commons, 2017-02-02
Topic: International Affairs
David Michael Davis (Conservative, Centre-right): I am not quite sure what my hon. Friend means by formal reporting. I have visited the Exiting the European Union Committee once and will be appearing in front of it again, and this, as I said, is my sixth statement to the House. We come to the House at every possible opportunity to tell Members what is going on. There will be subsequent debates, including substantive debates on policy. There will undoubtedly be other Brexit debates—more are planned already—so there is no question that the House will not be fully informed. That we are somehow not paying attention to the Opposition is an illusion—a chimera—that they like to run out. We have given them a White Paper and answers about the customs union and the single market. I do not know how much more open I can be without being dissected.
Exiting the EU: New Partnership — House of Commons, 2017-02-02
Topic: International Affairs
David Michael Davis (Conservative, Centre-right): The Government’s thinking on Brexit is very clear. If someone disagrees with it, that does not mean that it does not exist. That is the problem that SNP Members have had all the way through this process. They just do not like it—[Interruption.] Sure, half a page is blank. Wonderful. I think that is the case in every book I own.
Exiting the EU: New Partnership — House of Commons, 2017-02-02
Topic: International Affairs
William Peter Wragg (Conservative, Centre-right): I welcome the White Paper and hope that it heralds unity both in our party and in the country on our approach to leaving the European Union. May I therefore commend to all Members yesterday’s speech by my right hon. Friend the Member for North East Bedfordshire (Alistair Burt)? He was the epitome of grace and magnanimity.