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  • Planning for Britain’s future aviation needs (Supplementary) [1]

    • Question by: Onkar Sahota
    • Meeting date: 18 June 2014
    Dr Onkar Sahota AM: Sir Howard, you said you will not resurrect the idea of a link between Heathrow and Gatwick but you are still keeping the critically ill patient, the estuary airport, alive. Is it not time to switch off the ventilator on that idea or do you think it is something which you think is still a plausible idea? Listening to you this morning, I can see all the arguments why the estuary airport is not a goer anyway.
  • Bedroom Tax (Supplementary) [3]

    • Question by: Onkar Sahota
    • Meeting date: 13 March 2013
    This is about 'bedroom tax'. I do welcome the retreat made by the Secretary of State [Iain Duncan Smith MP, Secretary of State for Work and Pensions] yesterday on three issues. However, I am still concerned - and I am talking as a practising doctor - that I, and my colleagues who see patients, who come to us for letters of exemption where there are adults who have problems or even children who have problems which are not covered by the Disability Act. How responsive are the local authorities on making these exemptions to patients who have genuine grounds supported...