Chamber and committees

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will carry out an assessment of the carbon value of the additional flights between Heathrow Airport and Scotland that would result from building a third runway, as set out in its memorandum of understanding with Heathrow Airport and the information contained in the response to the freedom of information request FOI/19/20661, in light of (a) the UK Government’s revised guidance on carbon valuation, as set out in its policy paper Valuation of greenhouse gas emissions: for policy appraisal and evaluation, published on 2 September 2021, and (b) analysis by the New Economics Foundation, published on 27 January 2022, relating to carbon value and airport expansion projects.