Speeches by Kane.

“I thank the Chair of the Transport Committee for that question. It is an incredibly busy sea highway, as we all know. I had the great honour of visiting the command and control post of the Humber estuary on what was almost my last visit as shadow Maritime Minister just before the general election, and I pay tribute to …”

“The shadow Minister is exactly right: something did go terribly wrong. My thoughts and prayers are with the missing sailor’s family. The company has been informed, and his next of kin are being informed. In response to the series of questions the shadow Minister asked, we know for sure that the Immaculate was carrying …”

“Shakespeare said: “Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.” I think it is all three in the case of my hon. Friend the Member for Doncaster East and the Isle of Axholme (Lee Pitcher). As a Lancastrian, I am feeling rather intimidated by the line-up of Members on the Benches…”

“The right hon. Member raises an important point. The resilience of the UK aviation sector is important, and key to its success, so we will facilitate any discussions to make sure we are always on an improvement trajectory.”

“This Government are committed to growth, which regional airports support by serving their local communities, creating jobs, and acting as gateways to international opportunities. Heathrow expansion could give more regions access to a bigger international network through their local airports, thus boosting productivity …”

“The airports national policy statement from 2018, which was two Governments ago, made it clear that any proposal—we have not had a proposal come forward—should treat surface access appropriately, and that should be funded by the private sector where possible.”

“The Government are committed to regional airports. I am proudly wearing my “Yes to R2” badge from when we built a second runway at Manchester airport in 2001. The position is quite the opposite of what my hon. Friend describes: under the 2018 airports national policy statement, the number of connections from Heathrow t…”

“As my hon. Friend says, freight is hugely important for growth. That is why the Chancellor recently announced plans to build a new advanced manufacturing and logistics park at East Midlands airport, which will unlock up to £1 billion of investment and 2,000 jobs on the site.”

“This was a policy cooked up by the Valuation Office Agency under His Majesty’s Revenue and Customs by the last Government. We have engaged with airports on this matter and asked them to continue to engage with the Valuation Office Agency.”

“It’s everything.”

“Would I like to rank them? We are just full. Heathrow is full. It is 95%-plus at the moment, and that can be damaging. It means we begin to leak people to a hub elsewhere, taking the pound out of the UK. It means that we cannot get our goods and freight in because it is also the biggest airport. We are full and we need…”

“Even if there wasn’t business growth, there is leisure growth. Even if there wasn’t leisure growth, there is more demand for freight growth. I met recently with most of the major airline freight providers in the UK, and they all had the same issues about getting slots at Heathrow and the pressures that would come in th…”

“We are going to have to review the ANPS. That is what civil servants will do. There is an indicative cost of doing that. I go back to the point that we don’t know what the proposal is going to be, but they have to meet targets that we provided in the last one. I do not have them to hand at the moment. Surface access im…”

“We have not seen what the proposal is.”

“We would expect this to be private sector—”

“I hear about the incinerator a lot. I must get a briefing note on the incinerator.”

“We have not seen a proposal, so I cannot talk about the incinerator and the M25. All I can say is that surface access transport will have to improve to get more passengers to Heathrow, and therefore we expect Heathrow or any related party that comes forward with that to show how they can fund it.”

“As somebody who grew up under the flight path at Manchester, I remember in the ’70s—”

“Thank you. I know you have previous experience in the rail industry. It is helpful. For those of us living in the north, it is not a great connection. Possibly Manchester to London is on a good day, but in Scotland, the north-east, Wales and some parts of the south those connections are not good enough. We cannot just …”

“Undoubtedly. HS1 has been an unparalleled success. HS2 will get to Birmingham. We will see what happens on that. We have capacity constraints on our west coast main line. The French did some of this around carbon emissions, but UK domestic aviation only accounts for about 4% of our emissions. We have to look at other w…”