Heathrow Airport Expansion

EDM number 1426 in 2008-09, proposed by John McDonnell on 05/05/2009.
Categorised under the topic of Aviation.

That this House welcomes the statement by the chief executives of a wide range of leading companies that the economic case for expanding Heathrow Airport has not been made; and calls upon the Government to commission an independent economic assessment of the Heathrow expansion proposals for report to Parliament and to announce a moratorium on the Heathrow expansion process until this independent assessment has been published and considered by Parliament.

This motion has been signed by a total of 27 MPs, 1 of these signatures have been withdrawn.