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Adjournment debate on Thursday, 19 May 2011, in the House of Commons, led by David TC Davies. The answering member was Mike Penning.

Severn Crossings Toll

Westminster hall adjournment debate on the Severn Crossings Toll. (Relevant documents: Welsh Affairs Select Committee, session 2010-2011, HC 506, and the Government response, HC 837).

Secondary information

Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
528 c167-86WH 
Session
2010-12
Department
Department for Transport
Chamber / Committee
Westminster Hall
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Proceeding contributions
David TC Davies | 528 c167-8WH (Link to this contribution) I must admit that that was a surprise to me. It would, of course, have been feasible to do it, but a...
Geraint Davies | 528 c168WH (Link to this contribution) The point is that the Welsh Assembly Government had no locus or power to set anything. These things ...
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David TC Davies | 528 c168WH (Link to this contribution) Once again, the hon. Gentleman has anticipated some of my comments. Before I turn to 2017, we shoul...
Lord Murphy of Torfaen | 528 c169WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman has said that the Labour Government did not act on these issues. He might not rem...
Jessica Morden | 528 c167WH (Link to this contribution) Was the hon. Gentleman as surprised as I was to see the Welsh Conservatives pledge during the Assemb...
David TC Davies | 528 c167WH (Link to this contribution) Everyone seems to be leaving the Chamber, which is sad because very few issues cause more rows in pu...
Mike Penning | 528 c186WH (Link to this contribution) As I have said, I do not intend delaying the Committee. The answer is no. I cannot give an indicatio...
David TC Davies | 528 c186WH (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Minister, a fellow holder of an HGV licence, for giving me another 15 minutes t...
Geraint Davies | 528 c186WH (Link to this contribution) I wonder whether the Minister could signal in the most general terms whether he anticipates the dire...
Mike Penning | 528 c185-6WH (Link to this contribution) No. That would be a spending commitment, and I do not have the authority in my lowly position to dre...
Geraint Davies | 528 c183WH (Link to this contribution) Naturally, the debate focused on whether we could reduce the toll to £1 up to 2017, but I infer from...
Owen Smith | 528 c178-9WH (Link to this contribution) That is a question to be addressed to Carwyn Jones, the Welsh Labour First Minister in Cardiff. I am...
Mike Penning | 528 c179-83WH (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Davies, in this ground-breaking debate. I wish...
Mike Penning | 528 c183-4WH (Link to this contribution) I have asked for a note, but it has not arrived. It might do—hint, hint—in the time left. I cannot u...
Owen Smith | 528 c184-5WH (Link to this contribution) I want to clarify what the Minister has just said, because it was very interesting. Is he suggesting...
Mike Penning | 528 c183WH (Link to this contribution) This is where I wish that I had not joined the Army at 16 but had gone to university and become a co...
Jessica Morden | 528 c183WH (Link to this contribution) While the Minister is on the issue of the contract, does what has been said equally apply to car sha...
Jonathan Edwards | 528 c177WH (Link to this contribution) The policy of the previous Welsh Government was to seek responsibility for the bridges at the end of...
Owen Smith | 528 c177WH (Link to this contribution) This, again, has been an interesting and worthwhile debate—certainly worth while from my perspective...
Lord Murphy of Torfaen | 528 c177WH (Link to this contribution) It was amazing. I hope that this debate and any consequent Government policy might lead to discussio...
Geraint Davies | 528 c174-5WH (Link to this contribution) I would like to make a few quick comments before my voice breaks again. The importance of the report...
Lord Murphy of Torfaen | 528 c175-6WH (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr Davies—I have just realised that one third of the Members in the Chamber are called Da...
Jonathan Edwards | 528 c176WH (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman makes an interesting point. Does he agree that it was very strange that, du...
Jessica Morden | 528 c171-2WH (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for his intervention. There is no permanent solution to that at the moment. I...
David TC Davies | 528 c172WH (Link to this contribution) Presumably, if the hon. Lady and I were fortunate enough to win the lottery, we could ask Jim Clune ...
Jessica Morden | 528 c172-3WH (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for his intervention. Apparently the Assembly would have had to pay £29 m...
Karen Lumley | 528 c173-4WH (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship today, Mr Davies. I want to say just a few words a...
Speaker | 528 c171WH (Link to this contribution) Order. I ask for interventions to be brief.
Nick Smith | 528 c171WH (Link to this contribution) I, too, congratulate the Chair of the Committee, the hon. Member for Monmouth (David T. C. Davies), ...
Jessica Morden | 528 c170-1WH (Link to this contribution) It is good to see the Minister here to respond to the debate. I thought that his evidence to the Wel...
Mike Penning | 528 c169WH (Link to this contribution) I do not want to pre-empt in anyway my later comments, but my hon. Friend may notice that I am not a...
David TC Davies | 528 c169WH (Link to this contribution) I suspect that the Minister is going to make me aware of a few of those factors. I accept that we ma...
Geraint Davies | 528 c169WH (Link to this contribution) West. We have not had the boundary changed yet.
David TC Davies | 528 c169WH (Link to this contribution) I apologise. The hon. Member for Swansea West (Geraint Davies) made a point about the potential leve...
David TC Davies | 528 c169WH (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman has far more knowledge of what happened in 1991 than me. However, if we had...
David TC Davies | 528 c169-70WH (Link to this contribution) I appreciate that clarification. However, we are about five or six years away at most from the estim...
Subjects
Bridges Taxation Repairs and maintenance Tolls Severn river crossing
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