HC Deb 05 November 1999 vol 337 c345W
Mr. Peter Ainsworth

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions when BAA submitted the result of their feasibility study into a second runway at Gatwick to his Department; and if he will publish its findings. [97475]

Mr. Mullin

BAA did not complete their study, which the previous administration had asked them to undertake, of less environmentally damaging runway options, such as a close parallel runway at Gatwick. We announced on 19 January 1998,Official Report, column 372, that we had asked BAA to put this work on hold so that we could review the issue in light of the integrated transport White Paper.