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Dear

Request for review of the Airports National Policy Statement (ANPS)

I write further to letter of 7 January 2021 acknowledging receipt of your

letter of 18 December 2020 to the Secretary of State for Transport, on behalf of your clients

Dale Vince and the Good Law Project Limited, requesting that the Secretary of State

considers whether it is appropriate to review and suspend the Airports National Policy

Statement pursuant to Sections 6 and 11 of the Planning Act 2008.

I note that you acknowledge in your letter that there is a need for the Secretary of State to

have time to digest the Supreme Court judgment and other matters and you requested a

substantive response by 18 January 2021. Unfortunately, I am not yet in a position to be

able to provide such a response. I would like to assure you that Department for Transport

officials are carefully considering the matters set out in your letter and we will write to you

again shortly.

Yours sincerely,

Deputy Director, Airports Infrastructure & Commercial

Hausfeld & Co LLP

12 Gough Square

London

EC4A 3DW

Department for Transport

Great Minster House

33 Horseferry Road

London

SW1P 4DR

Tel:

Web Site: www.gov.uk/dft

Our Ref: HP20/001

18 January 2021