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Transport (Investment)

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Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

517 c177-98 

Session

2010-12

Department

Department for Transport

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber

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Proceeding contributions

Martin Horwood | 517 c183-4 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. May I also thank the Secretary of State for the advance notice of h...

Speaker | 517 c184 (Link to this contribution) Order. I say to the hon. Gentleman that I have only just advised the House that hon. Members could h...

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Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 517 c184 (Link to this contribution) The Swindon to Kemble project, which my hon. Friend mentions, was uniquely the only Network Rail sch...

Clive Efford | 517 c184 (Link to this contribution) Will the Secretary of State provide some clarification of the Prime Minister's comments at the CBI y...

Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 517 c181-2 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Lady for her comments and welcome her to the Dispatch Box. I welcome the tone of he...

Anna Soubry | 517 c182 (Link to this contribution) Whilst I welcome, after years of dithering by the last Administration, a decision on the extension o...

Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 517 c183 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend for her remarks. I know that the Nottingham tramway is not universal...

Louise Ellman | 517 c183 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the positive parts of the statement, but there are major problems relating to the very imp...

Speaker | 517 c183 (Link to this contribution) Order. May I just inform hon. Members that a large number of you want to get in, so by asking a shor...

Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 517 c177-9 (Link to this contribution) With your permission, Madam Deputy Speaker, I would like to make a statement on the Government's inv...

Maria Eagle | 517 c179-81 (Link to this contribution) May I begin by thanking the right hon. Gentleman for sending my office a copy of his statement in ad...

Baroness McIntosh of Pickering | 517 c187 (Link to this contribution) I applaud the criteria by which the Secretary of State has chosen to decide which projects should go...

Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 517 c187 (Link to this contribution) Indeed I can. As I made clear in my statement, potential for economic growth is one of the key prior...

Lilian Greenwood | 517 c187 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State says that he wants to move to local decision making, but I can tell him that ...

Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 517 c187 (Link to this contribution) Dear, dear! I must be going deaf, because I did not hear the hon. Lady mention the Nottingham tramwa...

Chris Leslie | 517 c187 (Link to this contribution) Rubbish!

Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 517 c186 (Link to this contribution) The Under-Secretary, my hon. Friend the Member for Lewes (Norman Baker), will be in Ipswich tomorrow...

Jim Cunningham | 517 c186 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Secretary of State for receiving a delegation from Coventry on the Nuneaton to Coventry ...

Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 517 c186 (Link to this contribution) I assure the hon. Gentleman that all schemes will be objectively appraised and that I do not always ...

Lord Foster of Bath | 517 c186-7 (Link to this contribution) The Bath transportation package is now in the development grouping. Some aspects of the scheme are u...

Ben Gummer | 517 c186 (Link to this contribution) I am delighted that funding for ““Ipswich—Transport Fit for the 21st Century”” is being brought forw...

Brian H Donohoe | 517 c186 (Link to this contribution) In reassessing the M54-M6 toll road, will the Secretary of State take into account travel times? Ove...

Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 517 c186 (Link to this contribution) Travel times and potential journey savings are one of the key factors that the current model takes i...

Andrew Percy | 517 c185 (Link to this contribution) For years, Yorkshire and the Humber has had some of the lowest per capita transport funding in the c...

Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 517 c185 (Link to this contribution) Transport funding in Yorkshire and the Humber is now about average, although I accept the comments t...

Bob Ainsworth | 517 c185 (Link to this contribution) May I tell the Secretary of State that the Coventry and Warwickshire travel-to-work area runs on a n...

Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 517 c185 (Link to this contribution) To clarify, the scheme to which the right hon. Gentleman refers is one of the schemes in the pool of...

Paul Maynard | 517 c184 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the upgrading of the Blackpool tramway and the many other infrastructure improvements in t...

Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 517 c184-5 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend for that question. The Northern Way has produced some extremely valu...

Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 517 c184 (Link to this contribution) I have not seen my right hon. Friend's speech, but I suspect that he was referring to the statement ...

Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 517 c189 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the hon. Gentleman's comments. I have followed the scheme with particularly close interest...

Jackie Doyle-Price | 517 c189 (Link to this contribution) The decision to postpone the work on junction 30 will be met with much dismay by my constituents in ...

Baroness Chapman of Darlington | 517 c190 (Link to this contribution) I am pleased to hear Government Members, particularly the right hon. Member for Berwick-upon-Tweed (...

Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 517 c189-90 (Link to this contribution) Yes. My right hon. Friend is referring to junction 30 of the M25, a scheme that we cannot envisage b...

Nick de Bois | 517 c190 (Link to this contribution) My constituents will warmly welcome the planned improvements to the M25 between junctions 23 and 27,...

Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 517 c190 (Link to this contribution) The announcements made both today and last week by my right hon. Friend the Chancellor have containe...

Stephen Hepburn | 517 c190 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that the Secretary of State will understand my disappointment that the junction schemes on...

Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 517 c190 (Link to this contribution) I hope that my office told my hon. Friend that I visited the M25, including junctions 23 to 27, this...

Stephen Williams | 517 c191 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the fact that value for money is being confirmed for the Bristol bus rapid transit scheme ...

Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 517 c187-8 (Link to this contribution) Decisions on the cancellation of Highways Agency schemes were made after very careful analysis of th...

Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 517 c188 (Link to this contribution) I am afraid that that scheme is some way off at the moment. At a point in the future that we will de...

Lord Beith | 517 c188 (Link to this contribution) As the Secretary of State has already recognised that the A1 is a road of national strategic importa...

Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 517 c188 (Link to this contribution) I am aware of the importance that the local authority and local people attach to the scheme. I am su...

Mark Spencer | 517 c188-9 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the Secretary of State on his successful negotiations with the Treasury, and I welcom...

Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 517 c188 (Link to this contribution) I can give the hon. Lady the assurance that the factors she mentions are indeed taken into account i...

Bridget Phillipson | 517 c188 (Link to this contribution) The Sunderland strategic transport corridor, which includes the new bridge over the River Wear, will...

Stuart Andrew | 517 c193 (Link to this contribution) I thank my right hon. Friend for the statement and, particularly, for his investment in the southern...

Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 517 c193 (Link to this contribution) Both schemes to which my hon. Friend refers are in the development pool, and I urge him to urge his ...

Bill Esterson | 517 c193 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the news that the Thornton to Switch Island relief road will be funded, but will the Minis...

Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 517 c194 (Link to this contribution) The A5-M1 link road has not been shelved: it is a scheme on which we will do further development wor...

Gavin Shuker | 517 c194 (Link to this contribution) Does the Minister understand the concern that he will cause in Luton and the surrounding areas by hi...

Speaker | 517 c194 (Link to this contribution) Order. We have taken 30 Members' contributions so far, and the statement is running rather longer th...

Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 517 c193 (Link to this contribution) I can safely say that any local authority that comes back with a revised bid offering less local con...

Marcus Jones | 517 c194 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the statement and the Government's commitment to invest in our transport infrastructure. I...

Rachel Reeves | 517 c191 (Link to this contribution) The Leeds rail growth package included a new railway station at Kirkstall Forge. Half of the money w...

Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 517 c191 (Link to this contribution) Dear, dear, it must be my ears again. I did not hear the hon. Lady mention the Leeds station souther...

Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 517 c191 (Link to this contribution) Where local authorities wish to impose workplace parking levies, they need the Secretary of State's ...

Alex Cunningham | 517 c192 (Link to this contribution) The cuts mean dark days ahead for the north-east, and they will be even darker now, with the decisio...

Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 517 c192 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend might have slightly misunderstood the pre-qualification pool. It is not that the King...

Anne Marie Morris | 517 c192 (Link to this contribution) Although I am delighted to see that so many schemes have been approved for Devon, I know that my con...

Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 517 c192 (Link to this contribution) I understand that my ministerial colleagues are aware of the scheme to which the hon. Gentleman refe...

Clive Betts | 517 c192 (Link to this contribution) To try to take the positives out of the statement, I welcome the go-ahead for Sheffield's PFI highwa...

Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 517 c191-2 (Link to this contribution) Access to York park and ride is included in that group of schemes. As I announced earlier, we intend...

Julian Sturdy | 517 c191 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Secretary of State for the improvement that he has made to fairer transport funding for ...

Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 517 c195 (Link to this contribution) I am always happy to hear from the business lobby and the most convincing arguments often come from ...

Robert Halfon | 517 c195 (Link to this contribution) Harlow commuters will welcome the expansion of the M25 up to the M11, but the Minister will be aware...

Mary Glindon | 517 c194-5 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Minister for agreeing to meet my hon. Friend the Member for Jarrow (Mr Hepburn) and me, ...

Mike Hancock | 517 c194 (Link to this contribution) May I declare an interest as a member of Portsmouth city council? I thank the Secretary of State for...

Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 517 c196 (Link to this contribution) As I hope I have made clear, the process for the appraisal of projects is pretty rigorous, and will ...

Sarah Wollaston | 517 c195-6 (Link to this contribution) The Kingskerswell bypass in my constituency has been tantalisingly close to approval for half a cent...

Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 517 c195 (Link to this contribution) I hope so. I said at the beginning of my statement, but perhaps I was being obtuse, that other major...

Lord Wilson of Sedgefield | 517 c195 (Link to this contribution) On ““Question Time”” last week, the Secretary of State raised expectations in the north-east on the ...

Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 517 c195 (Link to this contribution) I commend my hon. Friend for his tenacity. I know that he campaigned on this issue for many years be...

Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 517 c198 (Link to this contribution) At least one of the schemes to which my hon. Friend refers is in the development pool. We will conti...

Martin Vickers | 517 c198 (Link to this contribution) It is disappointing that the two schemes affecting the port of Immingham will not proceed in the imm...

Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 517 c197 (Link to this contribution) I understand my hon. Friend's concerns. This issue must of course primarily be a matter for the prom...

Speaker | 517 c198 (Link to this contribution) Thank you. That was 43 Members contributing, but it would have been easier if they had all been brie...

Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 517 c198 (Link to this contribution) Yes I can give my hon. Friend that assurance. The intention is to carry out the pre-qualification as...

George Eustice | 517 c198 (Link to this contribution) One of the projects that is currently in the pre-qualification pool is the Camborne and Redruth tran...

Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 517 c196 (Link to this contribution) I do not think that is the impression that businesses in Nottinghamshire will have been left with. I...

Chris Leslie | 517 c196 (Link to this contribution) Will the Secretary of State now publish the assessment to which he alluded earlier of the A453 in No...

Eric Ollerenshaw | 517 c196 (Link to this contribution) I want quickly to congratulate the Secretary of State on how much he has achieved for transport in t...

Speaker | 517 c196 (Link to this contribution) Order. I will take the last five Members, because they have been waiting very patiently, but I ask t...

Speaker | 517 c196 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Secretary of State. I call David Rutley.

Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 517 c196 (Link to this contribution) Yes.

David Rutley | 517 c197 (Link to this contribution) What view has my right hon. Friend's Department formed of the long-term prospects of the south-east ...

Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 517 c197 (Link to this contribution) My ministerial colleagues are telling me—there are a lot of schemes to file in our minds—that this w...

David Mowat | 517 c197 (Link to this contribution) Like Members on both sides of the House, I am delighted that the Secretary of State has found the mo...

Speaker | 517 c197 (Link to this contribution) Order. Thank you very much. Will the Member please resume his seat? I think the Secretary of State g...

Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 517 c183 (Link to this contribution) I am glad that the hon. Lady has raised the issue of the regional growth fund. It is important to re...

Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 517 c190 (Link to this contribution) I am happy to receive a representation from the hon. Gentleman. Of course, the promoting local autho...

Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 517 c189 (Link to this contribution) The Department uses a set of criteria wider than simply measuring the benefit-cost ratios—monetisabl...

Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 517 c193 (Link to this contribution) We have confirmed the massive funding for the Nexus metro upgrade. The issue is not about cuts, but ...

Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 517 c194 (Link to this contribution) If the fundamentals of the scheme justify its promotion to the development pool, it will be so promo...

Simon Danczuk | 517 c188 (Link to this contribution) Rochdale interchange, which is more commonly known, in Rochdale at least, as Rochdale bus station, i...

Derek Twigg | 517 c189 (Link to this contribution) My question is on the funding of the Mersey Gateway between Runcorn and Widnes. It would be useful i...

Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 517 c194 (Link to this contribution) That is the third representation that we have had on the Coventry-Nuneaton rail upgrade this afterno...

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Bus services Bridges Investment Public transport Public expenditure Transport Tolls

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