To ask the Secretary of State for Transport pursuant to the answer of 17 March 2009, Official Report, column 987W, on Heathrow Airport, what the position was which was confirmed by advice to Ministers in September 2007 and subsequently agreed to for the purposes of the Adding Capacity at Heathrow Airport public consultation; and if he will make a statement. (266648)

The hon. Member’s previous questions related to air quality modelling results. The advice to Ministers in September 2007 confirmed the conclusions of the environmental assessment programme on the ability to meet noise and air quality limits if Heathrow was expanded. These conclusions were subsequently set out in the “Adding Capacity at Heathrow Airport” consultation document published in November 2007.