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HANSARDFlybeI thank the noble Lord for his comments. I will certainly make sure that the Treasury sees them.05 Mar 2020HANSARDFlybeThe noble Lord raises an interesting point. Air passenger duty is under review by Her Majesty’s Treasury, as indeed are all taxes. The Conservative manifesto set out our…05 Mar 2020HANSARDFlybeI thank both Front-Benchers for their contributions; a number of very important issues were raised, some of which I can agree with and some of which I probably cannot. I think…05 Mar 2020HANSARDHolyheadI so thank my noble friend for that question. I believe there will be a debate fairly soon about charging points for electric vehicles. It is obviously a huge priority for the…02 Mar 2020HANSARDAirport ExpansionThis is an important point, but it is a complex and important judgment running to several hundreds of pages. The Government are taking their time to consider the judgment, and we…02 Mar 2020HANSARDAirport ExpansionMy noble friend raises an important point. I go back to what I said earlier: the courts did not conclude that airport expansion was incompatible with climate change, simply that…02 Mar 2020HANSARDAirport ExpansionThis Government are anti-aviation emissions, not anti-flying. That is the entire point. The Government are working incredibly hard to make sure that we get emissions down by 2050.…02 Mar 2020HANSARDAirport ExpansionThis is of course incredibly important, because there are potential read-acrosses to various other infrastructure builds. However, we are confident that they fall within our…02 Mar 2020HANSARDAirport ExpansionI thank my noble friend for raising one of the other London airports. It is true that we are incredibly lucky in this country, in that we have a number of options when we fly from…02 Mar 2020HANSARDHolyheadMy Lords, we want trade to be as frictionless as possible, and are therefore in discussions with ports to understand exactly what they will be doing to make the checks that will…02 Mar 2020HANSARDHolyheadIn terms of border checks, I hope so because as I said in a previous answer, the best-prepared ports will have a competitive advantage. I very much hope that Holyhead will be at…02 Mar 2020HANSARDHolyheadAs the noble Baroness, Lady Randerson, will know, I cannot possibly answer that question at this time because those sorts of things are still being finalised. However, we have…02 Mar 2020HANSARDHolyheadI agree with the noble Lord that that has to be a concern. As I mentioned in my opening Answer, the Government and the Welsh Government have committed £240 million to the north…02 Mar 2020HANSARDHolyheadMy Lords, the UK and Welsh Governments have committed £240 million of joint funding to the north Wales growth deal. The UK Government are working to bring greater investment…02 Mar 2020HANSARDHolyheadMy Lords, that is a long and complex question with a long and complex answer. As noble Lords will know, arrangements for borders in the Irish Sea or elsewhere are currently under…02 Mar 2020HANSARDHolyheadI thank my noble friend for asking me about the free ports because they could be a great way of boosting trade, attracting inward investment and driving productivity. The…02 Mar 2020HANSARDAirport ExpansionMy Lords, with the leave of the House, I shall now repeat in the form of a Statement the Answer to an Urgent Question asked in another place on airport expansion. The Statement is…02 Mar 2020HANSARDAirport ExpansionMy Lords, I will not go into the detail of who received what legal advice and when, but the court ruled in the way it did. It is worth looking at one thing: the court did not…02 Mar 2020HANSARDAirport ExpansionI feel that the last comment in particular from the noble Baroness, Lady Randerson, was a little harsh. We are the first major economy to have legislated for net zero by 2050. We…02 Mar 2020HANSARDAirport ExpansionI do not think that I am willing to go down that track.02 Mar 2020