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Transport Infrastructure

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Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

486 c355-76 

Session

2008-09

Department

Department for Transport

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber

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Proceeding contributions

Speaker | 486 c367 (Link to this contribution) The answer to the hon. Lady is five days. I counsel the House that I understand that the strength of...

Speaker | 486 c367 (Link to this contribution) Order. [Interruption.] The hon. Member for Hayes and Harlington (John McDonnell) must—[Interruption....

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Speaker | 486 c376 (Link to this contribution) Order. We must move on now, to be fair to the other issues that have to be discussed. I apologise to...

Geoffrey Hoon | 486 c376 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend has been assiduous in making the transport case for his constituency. I have had a nu...

Martin Linton | 486 c376 (Link to this contribution) My constituents will certainly welcome the rejection of mixed mode, which was the greatest threat to...

Geoffrey Hoon | 486 c376 (Link to this contribution) One of the clear economic justifications for looking hard at future capacity on our rail network and...

Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton | 486 c375-6 (Link to this contribution) Given the appalling service received by commuters in the very first week of the newly refurbished we...

Geoffrey Hoon | 486 c375 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend for her observation, with which I entirely agree.

Geoffrey Hoon | 486 c372 (Link to this contribution) I do not know exactly how many of the hon. Gentleman's constituents work at Heathrow airport, but so...

David Evennett | 486 c372 (Link to this contribution) South-east London residents will be bitterly disappointed by the Secretary of State's decision today...

Geoffrey Hoon | 486 c372 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend has been a Member of the House for far longer than I have. During that period, she ha...

Baroness Hoey | 486 c371-2 (Link to this contribution) The country will not understand how we, in the mother of Parliaments, representing our constituents,...

Geoffrey Hoon | 486 c371 (Link to this contribution) I will send the hon. Gentleman a briefing on Crossrail, as he has misunderstood. The funding for Cro...

Rob Wilson | 486 c371 (Link to this contribution) Few people will take comfort from either of the Secretary of State's statements today. My constituen...

Geoffrey Hoon | 486 c371 (Link to this contribution) I think I am grateful for my hon. Friend's observations. Certainly, it is right not to pursue the sh...

Geoffrey Hoon | 486 c372 (Link to this contribution) I assure my hon. Friend that we did consider alternative sites. If he has another look at the 2003 W...

Andy Slaughter | 486 c372 (Link to this contribution) If my right hon. Friend understands that mixed mode would cause additional misery to those on curren...

Anne Main | 486 c374 (Link to this contribution) I fear that the proposal has been given an over-optimistic greenwash, and that it relies heavily on ...

Geoffrey Hoon | 486 c374 (Link to this contribution) I am sorry that the hon. Lady has put her question in that way. This is not about a particular plane...

Philip Hollobone | 486 c373 (Link to this contribution) Having been embarrassed into doing so by local pressure, the Government have announced proposals to ...

Michael Meacher | 486 c373-4 (Link to this contribution) If NOx exceedances are already well above permitted European Union levels, how can they conceivably ...

Geoffrey Hoon | 486 c373 (Link to this contribution) As I said in my statement, a more detailed document is in the Vote Office and available to Members. ...

Geoffrey Hoon | 486 c373 (Link to this contribution) At the heart of my decision is a recognition that it is important to provide Heathrow with greater c...

Christopher Chope | 486 c372-3 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State has said that he expects the new runway to be operational early in the period...

Geoffrey Hoon | 486 c373 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend for his observations, and for the representations that he has made o...

Clive Efford | 486 c373 (Link to this contribution) Residents of south-east London will welcome the decision not to proceed with mixed mode, but they an...

Geoffrey Hoon | 486 c374 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend will forgive me if I am slightly puzzled by his observation. He will know from ...

Geoffrey Hoon | 486 c375 (Link to this contribution) That will be something for the Climate Change Committee to determine, but I am absolutely confident ...

Karen Buck | 486 c374 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend understands the symbolic significance of Heathrow expansion in the context of t...

Speaker | 486 c375 (Link to this contribution) Order. The hon. Lady is straying well beyond the scope of the statement. I call the Secretary of Sta...

Joan Ryan | 486 c375 (Link to this contribution) It seems to me that, difficult though the decision is, it is a decision about the national economic ...

Geoffrey Hoon | 486 c375 (Link to this contribution) As I said in my statement, it is an equal priority. We must not only ensure that we speed up journey...

John Mason | 486 c375 (Link to this contribution) If we are serious about the environment, surely we need to move as many people as possible out of pl...

John McDonnell | 486 c366-7 (Link to this contribution) The decision today, for my constituents, is an absolute disgrace. The commitments that have been giv...

Geoffrey Hoon | 486 c367 (Link to this contribution) I have made clear the position of the House in relation to such matters. It is a long-standing posit...

Baroness Hoey | 486 c367 (Link to this contribution) On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. Will you clarify something? You say that the hon. Gentleman...

Baroness May of Maidenhead | 486 c366 (Link to this contribution) As a result of today's announcements, my constituents face the prospect of a reduction in their qual...

Geoffrey Hoon | 486 c366 (Link to this contribution) I am sorry that the right hon. Lady approaches significant investment in road, rail and aviation as ...

Louise Ellman | 486 c365 (Link to this contribution) It is vital that there should be proper recognition of the significance of Heathrow as an internatio...

Geoffrey Hoon | 486 c365-6 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend. I outlined the process earlier. It is clearly necessary, in light o...

Geoffrey Hoon | 486 c362-3 (Link to this contribution) In weighing the evidence when making difficult decisions, such as those that I outlined to the House...

Speaker | 486 c362 (Link to this contribution) Order. We are considering an extremely important matter. The House would serve its interests and tho...

Geoffrey Hoon | 486 c355-60 (Link to this contribution) With permission, Mr. Speaker, I should like to make a statement about the Government's plans for Bri...

Theresa Villiers | 486 c360-2 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Secretary of State for advance sight of his statement, but frankly, if this is the resul...

Martin Salter | 486 c371 (Link to this contribution) Although there is not nearly enough in the Transport Secretary's statement to drag me into the Lobby...

Ian Taylor | 486 c370 (Link to this contribution) Heathrow is a fixture and is important for the south-east economy as well as that of the rest of the...

Geoffrey Hoon | 486 c370-1 (Link to this contribution) I had the privilege of shadowing the hon. Gentleman when he was a Minister with responsibility for t...

Geoffrey Hoon | 486 c369-70 (Link to this contribution) I have to make similar remarks to the hon. Lady as those I made to the hon. Member for Lewes (Norman...

Geoffrey Hoon | 486 c369 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend; he has campaigned vigorously on behalf of constituents, and has don...

Baroness Kramer | 486 c369 (Link to this contribution) The constituents of Richmond Park will be standing shoulder to shoulder with the constituents of Hay...

Justine Greening | 486 c368 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State met BAA and the unions, but can he tell the House when he has ever met direct...

Geoffrey Hoon | 486 c368-9 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady makes a fair point. Once I assumed this position, the consultation having been complet...

Alan Keen | 486 c369 (Link to this contribution) I have campaigned across party political lines, under the chairmanship of the hon. Member for Hayes ...

Stephen Pound | 486 c369 (Link to this contribution) Ealing, North.

Geoffrey Hoon | 486 c368 (Link to this contribution) The difficulty that I have with the hon. Gentleman's question is that, as I set out in my statement,...

Speaker | 486 c368 (Link to this contribution) Order. I say to the House that we will make more progress if every hon. Member gives a hearing to wh...

Fiona Mactaggart | 486 c368 (Link to this contribution) Will the Secretary of State guarantee the electrification of the Great Western line, and will he ens...

Geoffrey Hoon | 486 c368 (Link to this contribution) I made it clear that there is a strong case for electrifying the Great Western line, along with anot...

Speaker | 486 c367 (Link to this contribution) The answer to the hon. Lady is five days. I counsel the House that I understand that the strength of...

Lord Randall of Uxbridge | 486 c367 (Link to this contribution) One condition that the Government have not considered at all is what they are going to do with those...

Speaker | 486 c365 (Link to this contribution) Order. The House will probably know that I could fill an hour on this subject myself, but I am afrai...

Norman Baker | 486 c363-4 (Link to this contribution) Perhaps the Secretary of State could place his written answers to questions in the Library. I declar...

Geoffrey Hoon | 486 c364-5 (Link to this contribution) I am sorry that the House had to listen to that tirade of observations, which did not deal with any ...

Ruth Kelly | 486 c370 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate my right hon. Friend on what is truly a courageous and far-sighted decision to give t...

Geoffrey Hoon | 486 c370 (Link to this contribution) First, I thank my right hon. Friend for all her work as Secretary of State for Transport, which allo...

Subjects

Aviation Construction Air pollution Civil Aviation Authority Finance Greater London Infrastructure Exhaust emissions Environment Agency High speed trains Heathrow Airport Motor vehicles Pollution Powers Pollution control Railways Noise Motorways Scotland Transport Road traffic control West Midlands Electrification Carbon emissions High Speed Two

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