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HANSARDDraft Heavy Commercial Vehicles in Kent (No. 1) Order 2019May I come back to that in a second? I am grateful that time has been found for these debates to take place quickly and also for the speed at which the Joint Committee on…08 Oct 2019HANSARDDraft Heavy Commercial Vehicles in Kent (No. 1) Order 2019I was coming back to that, but I will answer both questions at the same point. Highways England has undertaken the environmental assessment for the M20 Brock as well as individual…08 Oct 2019HANSARDDraft Heavy Commercial Vehicles in Kent (No. 1) Order 2019Yes, there will. Currently, there are more than 50. A host of pop-up sites has already gone up, giving documentation out to hauliers and others to tell them what the checks might…08 Oct 2019HANSARDDraft Heavy Commercial Vehicles in Kent (No. 1) Order 2019I believe it is. I will find it and try to repeat that in my concluding remarks so that it is on the record, if that is okay. I was talking about the various checks and why we…08 Oct 2019HANSARDDraft Heavy Commercial Vehicles in Kent (No. 1) Order 2019I thank hon. Members for their contributions and questions. I will try to take on all of them. If the hon. Member for York Central does not mind, I will start with my hon. Friend…08 Oct 2019HANSARDDraft Heavy Commercial Vehicles in Kent (No. 1) Order 2019My hon. Friend makes a fair point; I will get feedback from officials on the point of law. We are doing everything, but we are completely open; if he or other Kent MPs, or others…08 Oct 2019HANSARDDraft Heavy Commercial Vehicles in Kent (No. 1) Order 2019It is a bit of both. Some are new staff being recruited and some are being transferred from other functions across the United Kingdom. I hope I have answered most of the…08 Oct 2019HANSARDDraft Heavy Commercial Vehicles in Kent (No. 1) Order 2019Brock will be in place to stop that happening. The powers we are discussing today will be the powers that the police and the representatives of the highways authorities will be…08 Oct 2019HANSARDDraft Heavy Commercial Vehicles in Kent (No. 1) Order 2019I understand my hon. Friend’s point. To answer his earlier point, and hopefully this point at the same time, he is quite right to say that designated traffic officers can work on…08 Oct 2019HANSARDDraft Heavy Commercial Vehicles in Kent (No. 1) Order 2019Although that is not necessarily part of this debate, I would like to answer it. I mentioned, but probably did not emphasise enough, that we are looking at changing the very…08 Oct 2019HANSARDDraft Heavy Commercial Vehicles in Kent (No. 1) Order 2019As I hope I said, we are considering the point about Kent County Council officers. We will wait until we actually need to do that before we consider going to other local councils.…08 Oct 2019HANSARDHeavy Commercial Vehicles in Kent (No. 2) Order 2019I beg to move, That the Committee has considered the Heavy Commercial Vehicles in Kent (No. 2) Order 2019. It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mrs Ryan. It is the…08 Oct 2019HANSARDHeavy Commercial Vehicles in Kent (No. 2) Order 2019I really hope not, too. The order is the second in a series of three, along with the draft Heavy Commercial Vehicles in Kent (No. 1) Order 2019 and the snappily named Heavy…08 Oct 2019HANSARDHeavy Commercial Vehicles in Kent (No. 2) Order 2019I was unaware of the issues that the hon. Member for Cambridge and his authority experienced. We have been building a recruitment drive for the past few months because we were…08 Oct 2019HANSARDHeavy Commercial Vehicles in Kent (No. 2) Order 2019My hon. Friend, whose constituency is obviously affected by everything we debate today, is assiduous in these matters. He raised this particular point in the debate this morning.…08 Oct 2019HANSARDHeavy Commercial Vehicles in Kent (No. 2) Order 2019The Government pick up the tab for all sorts of Brexit-related activity and, as ever, that will be the case in this instance. If a driver cannot pay the deposit, their vehicle…08 Oct 2019HANSARDHeavy Commercial Vehicles in Kent (No. 2) Order 2019I will pick up a couple of other points before I come to the questions asked by the hon. Member for York Central. I say in response to my hon. Friend the Member for Dover and the…08 Oct 2019HANSARDHeavy Commercial Vehicles in Kent (No. 2) Order 2019As my hon. Friend knows, we are actively looking at these matters, but I cannot give him a definite yes because I very much hope that we will not need to be in that situation.08 Oct 2019HANSARDHeavy Commercial Vehicles in Kent (No. 2) Order 2019I somehow guessed, Ms Ryan, that you would pull us back to the subject. It is a wise thing to do. I do not want to get too excited about that issue, because I really want to…08 Oct 2019HANSARDHeavy Commercial Vehicles in Kent (No. 2) Order 2019I will double-check, but I think the answer is yes. In Kent, that is a very rare occurrence, because the type of movements across the channel are roll-on roll-off movements, and…08 Oct 2019