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House of Commons Committee on Climate Change. Meeting Carbon Budgets – 2014 Progress Report to Parliament
Meeting Carbon Budgets - 2014 Progress Report to Parliament The Committee on Climate Changes has published the report ‘Meeting Carbon Budgets - 2014 Progress Report to Parliament’. The report is the Committee’s Sixth statutory report to Parliament on progress towards...
First report of the Airports Commission Senior Delivery Group. SDG Delivery Report 1 – July 2014
SDG Delivery Report 1 - July 2014 The Airports Commission Senior Delivery Group (SDG) have published their ‘Delivery Report #1’. This report sets out a series of short and medium term measures that have potential to improve the operational efficiency of the UK’s...
Written statement to Parliament. Government progress update on the Airports Commission’s interim report
The government established the Airports Commission in September 2012 to advise on the need for and location of future runway capacity. In December 2013, the commission produced a comprehensive interim report that sets out the challenges we face in order to maintain...
House of Commons debate – Domestic and international connectivity provided by regional airports
Nadine Dorries, (Conservative, Mid Bedfordshire). This is my first Westminster Hall debate, so I expect any interventions to be gentle. Our aviation sector is an important success story for the UK. We have the second largest aircraft manufacturing industry in the...
The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds report ‘Aviation, climate change and sharing the load’
Aviation, climate change and sharing the load The charity, The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds has published the report, ‘Aviation, climate change and sharing the load’. The report argues that the Airports Commission’s recommendation that the development of...
Aviation Environment Federation report – ‘Implications of South East airport expansion for regional airports’.
Implications of South East airport expansion for regional airports Aviation Environment Federation have published the report ‘Implications of South East airport expansion for regional airports’. Key findings from the report include: Building a new runway in the South...
Royal Society for the Protection of Birds report – ‘Aviation, climate change and sharing the load’
Aviation, climate change and sharing the load The charity, The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds has published the report, ‘Aviation, climate change and sharing the load’ . The report argues that the Airports Commission’s recommendation that the development...
Inner Thames estuary airport studies
The Airports Commission set out in its ‘Introductory Note’ on the inner Thames Estuary feasibility studies that it would publish the study outputs in early July 2014. Following consultation on the draft terms of reference, the final terms of reference for each of the...
House of Lords debate on the opening of a new airport on the UK Island of St. Helena in the South Atlantic
10 July 2014 - The House of Lords has debated the opening of a new airport on the Island of St. Helena in the South Atlantic. Lord Shutt of Greetland started the debate asking ‘what assessment they have made of the opportunities for the economic benefit and the...
Discussion paper 07: Delivering new runway capacity
Discussion paper 07: Delivering new runway capacity The Airports Commission has published a report, ‘Discussion Paper 7: delivery of a new runway’. This discussion paper calls for evidence on issues which the Airports Commission has identified as being of interest to...
Next SASIG Meeting 16th February 2018
The next full SASIG meeting will be held on 16thFebruary 2018 at the Local Government Association Group Office at 18 Smith Square, London. Full details and the agenda will be published nearer the time.