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• 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...

• 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.