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Civil Aviation Bill

I am grateful to my hon. Friend for drawing the distinction between decisions that need to be made locally and those that come back to ministerial and Government level. I also welcome the Government’s initiative in relation to EU-wide discussions. My difficulty lies in understanding where we will run the debate from. I do not want to put my hon. Friend on the spot on his first appearance at the Dispatch Box on aviation, but will he undertake to return to the House with whatever environmental impact assessments have been made about the projected growth of airport traffic and the carbon footprints that that will cause? Whatever discussions take place at European level, we must have some known parameters about the current carbon impact that we are talking about in the existing proposals, to put together not only a national approach but a European-wide one. So will he come back to the House to put that information before MPs, perhaps by placing it in the Library?