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Estimates day on Monday, 12 March 2007, in the House of Commons, led by Gwyneth Dunwoody. The answering member was Tom Harris.

Local Transport

Supplementary estimates 2006-07. Second estimates day (part two). Motion that, for the year ending with 31st March 2007, for expenditure by the Department for Transport— (1) further resources, not exceeding £849,010,000, be authorised for use as set out in House of Commons Paper No. 293, (2) a further sum, not exceeding £533,764,000, be granted to Her Majesty out of the Consolidated Fund to meet the costs as so set out, and (3) limits as so set out be set on appropriations in aid. Question deferred. Resolved.

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Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
458 c92-122 
Session
2006-07
Department
Department for Transport
Procedure
Supply estimates
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
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Proceeding contributions
Gwyneth Dunwoody | 458 c122 (Link to this contribution) With the leave of the House, I would like to say that we have had a very useful debate. There is a g...
Baroness Merron | 458 c121-2 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend the Minister of State heard my hon. Friend’s comments. I confirm again that the Gover...
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Graham Stringer | 458 c121 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is not convincing me at the moment, hard as she tries. If the Government are not agai...
Baroness Merron | 458 c120 (Link to this contribution) I can confirm that that will be taken into account. My hon. Friend the Member for Manchester, Black...
Baroness Merron | 458 c117-8 (Link to this contribution) I am pleased that we have debated local transport planning and funding. The subject is vital to achi...
Graham Stuart | 458 c119 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that hon. Members on both sides of the House, and especially those who have spoken this ev...
Baroness Merron | 458 c119-20 (Link to this contribution) I do not. The record investment levels that we have set in government are being sustained. For smal...
Gwyneth Dunwoody | 458 c120 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend for giving way. The scheme is important and popular, and the Governm...
Clive Efford | 458 c111 (Link to this contribution) Before the hon. Gentleman becomes too critical of our Front Benchers, I must pray in their aid the f...
Stephen Hammond | 458 c111-6 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is right, but he should not forget that the Government punted the issue into the ...
Tom Harris | 458 c116 (Link to this contribution) Is the hon. Gentleman nearly halfway yet?
Stephen Hammond | 458 c116-7 (Link to this contribution) About halfway. Let us leave capital funding and move on to revenue funding briefly. Atkins found th...
Stephen Hammond | 458 c111 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for the opportunity to contribute to this debate on the Select Committee’s report and ...
Clive Efford | 458 c110 (Link to this contribution) I agree with my hon. Friend to a certain extent. She tempts me to debate the whole Crossrail issue, ...
Gwyneth Dunwoody | 458 c92-3 (Link to this contribution) The best kind of partnerships, whether they are social, sexual, economic or political, are those in ...
Gwyneth Dunwoody | 458 c93 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman will forgive me if I do not wreck my entire career by getting involved in the pol...
Mark Pritchard | 458 c93 (Link to this contribution) Although I agree with the hon. Lady, does she agree that there is also the dynamic of the Office of ...
Gwyneth Dunwoody | 458 c93-6 (Link to this contribution) We can all play the constituency game and say, ““I haven’t got everything I want on my particular wi...
Andrew Selous | 458 c93 (Link to this contribution) My constituents are beginning to think of local transport planning in my area as a sick joke. A prev...
Mark Pritchard | 458 c96 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman share my concern that although the input of regional assemblies is often wel...
Alistair Carmichael | 458 c96 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Crewe and Nantwich (Mrs. Dunwoody). Her speech was a ...
Bob Spink | 458 c97 (Link to this contribution) Before the hon. Gentleman moves on, does he agree that one of the causes of disillusionment among lo...
Alistair Carmichael | 458 c97 (Link to this contribution) I do not know whether the hon. Gentleman has a specific instance in mind, but I can see how that mig...
Alistair Carmichael | 458 c97-9 (Link to this contribution) I commend that general approach. The Department for Communities and Local Government is a relatively...
Rob Wilson | 458 c104-6 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Manchester, Blackley (Graham Stringer), who has great...
Graham Stringer | 458 c103-4 (Link to this contribution) Of course. The problems result from deregulation, under-investment, and the privatisation of rail. H...
Graham Stringer | 458 c101-3 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for that intervention. Traffic commissioners are badly underfunded. If they h...
Gwyneth Dunwoody | 458 c101 (Link to this contribution) I apologise for interrupting my hon. Friend, but I do not want him to give the impression that traff...
Graham Stringer | 458 c101 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a pertinent point. I do not want to say any more about buses, but I agree that ...
Paul Truswell | 458 c100-1 (Link to this contribution) Is not there a danger in the otherwise welcome proposals in ““Putting Passengers First””, to which t...
Graham Stringer | 458 c99-100 (Link to this contribution) It is important to put the debate about local transport planning and funding into context. With the ...
Rob Wilson | 458 c106 (Link to this contribution) Local decisions should be made as locally as possible, but there are occasions when there needs to b...
Clive Efford | 458 c106 (Link to this contribution) I am curious about the hon. Gentleman’s argument. He began by saying that central Government had fai...
David Heath | 458 c106 (Link to this contribution) I know that the hon. Gentleman will recognise that the massive inconvenience that he talks about is ...
Clive Efford | 458 c109 (Link to this contribution) I think that both hon. Gentlemen will be drawing their pensions long before that happens. I can ima...
Clive Efford | 458 c110 (Link to this contribution) If the hon. Gentleman considers what he is saying, he will realise that there is transport infrastru...
Graham Stuart | 458 c109 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is asking about a peculiar answer from the Liberal Democrats, which is hardly unu...
Graham Stuart | 458 c107-8 (Link to this contribution) It is a great pleasure to follow my hon. Friend the Member for Reading, East (Mr. Wilson) and other ...
Rob Wilson | 458 c106 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is right. That causes massive inconvenience to the west, but it also causes massi...
Clive Efford | 458 c108 (Link to this contribution) The thrust of the Select Committee’s report focuses on how the relationship between local authoritie...
Gwyneth Dunwoody | 458 c110 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that it might be quite helpful if all the private sources of finance that ...
Subjects
Department for Transport Finance Public transport Railways Roads Transport Transport Committee
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