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  • Meagre benefits from a third runway (Supplementary) [4]

    • Question by: Joanne McCartney
    • Meeting date: 08 September 2015
    Joanne McCartney AM: Can we move to issues raised in chapter 7, the economic impacts assessment, and in particular the PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) report into the wider economic benefits of Heathrow? I understand that you put the PwC report out to your expert panel to do a peer review and it came back. If I can quote from its report, it said, “We counsel caution in attaching significant weight either to the absolute or relative results of the ... PwC report”, and stated that the methodology used was “unique or at least very unusual”. Yet your final report quotes extensively from...
  • Independent Aviation Noise Authority (Supplementary) [2]

    • Question by: Murad Qureshi
    • Meeting date: 18 June 2014
    Murad Qureshi AM: Sir Howard, sticking with the here and now with the compensation and mitigation of airport noise, I just want to be reassured. In coming to a decision regarding aviation expansion, what weight will you give to the present offer that Heathrow Holdings has made regarding the £500 million for noise insulation and property compensation?
  • Planning for Britain’s future aviation needs (Supplementary) [4]

    • Question by: Murad Qureshi
    • Meeting date: 18 June 2014
    Murad Qureshi AM: Can I follow up on John’s point on surface transport? Yes, Heathrow is the second biggest hotspot for air pollution in London after central London. It is interesting the City Airport came up because it has a 60% level of passengers using public transport for getting there. I cannot see if City Airport can do that why Heathrow cannot aim at that as well.