Proceeding contribution from Lord Hammond of Runnymede (Conservative) in the House of Commons on Tuesday, 26 October 2010. It occurred during Ministerial statement on Transport (Investment).
Transport (Investment)
Decisions on the cancellation of Highways Agency schemes were made after very careful analysis of the business cases and a realistic appraisal of the likely envelope of funding not only in this spending review period but in the next one and the one beyond. It would be very easy to stand here and say that nothing is cancelled, but I do not want to encourage further spending on schemes that have no realistic prospect of going forward within the next 10 years, as that money could be spent on live schemes and getting work done rather than on people sitting in Highways Agency offices designing and redesigning schemes that will never happen. We have had to take some tough decisions, but I am quite confident that we have taken the right ones.
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- 2010-12
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- House of Commons chamber
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- Bus services Bridges Investment Public transport Public expenditure Transport Tolls
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