Până la 10.000 de persoane vor trebui mutate dacă se va construi a treia pistă la Heathrow, afirmă John McDonnell – Politica din Marea Britanie în direct    

MPs representing constituencies in west London expressed reservations about the Heathrow third runway plan during the urgent question.John McDonnell, the former shadow chancellor whose Hayes and Harlington constituency includes Heathrow, is a strong opponent of the third runway and he asked:
Has the department provided … an assessment for example of where the 8-10,000 people in my constituency who have their homes demolished or rendered unliveable will live if the Heathrow expansion goes ahead?
Has [the minister] also mapped out for the chancellor the flight paths of the additional quarter of a million planes flying over the homes of people in those marginal seats of Uxbridge and Watford and Harrow and elsewhere?
And also has he advised the chancellor on some of the figures that have been bandied about about the economic benefits which seem to derive from the Airport Commission’s figures that are out of date – that his own department rubbished very thoroughly only in recent years.
Rupa Huq, the Labour MP for Ealing Central and Acton, said some of her constituents would want “a better not a bigger Heathrow”.And Deirdre Costigan, the Labour MP for Ealing Southall, said while some of her constituents would “welcome the good-quality, well-paid jobs airport expansion will bring” but others would have environmental concerns.Parents have “lost trust” in special educational needs provision for children in England because of the hurdles they face getting help from local authorities, MPs were told.A joint session of three parliamentary select committees – education, health and social care, and housing and local government – heard evidence from charities and organisations on the crisis facing children with special needs and disabilities in England.With the number of children and young people granted education, health and care plans (EHCPs) heading towards 600,000, and local authorities reporting rising high needs budget deficits, the experts said resources were being strained to breaking point.Imogen Steele, policy and public affairs officer for Contact, said her organisation was overwhelmed by calls to its helpline, and was trying to help parents rebuild their trust in what has becomeaninaccessible system.
A lot of parents don’t have trust in the system because they have been trying to get in touch with local authorities and they don’t reply, so they feel lost in the system.
Amanda Allard, director of the Council for Disabled Children, said:
What happens at the moment is that we have a ‘many wrong doors’ policy in too many areas, as opposed to one front door. And that is because of the different agencies involved and the different things that they commission, and the arguments – quite frankly – that happen over who pays for what.
Asked about improving the current distribution of high needs funding, Allard said:
I think that is a really, really difficult question…. what I would say is that the money couldn’t be spent any