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HANSARDRegional GrowthI think the hon. Member is slightly confused. The statement today is about devolved transport funding to mayors for intra-city transport. He is asking me questions on the broader…04 Jun 2025HANSARDRegional GrowthI congratulate my right hon. Friend on securing that investment into Birmingham. I recently visited part of that development and saw the enormous potential that will come for his…04 Jun 2025HANSARDRegional GrowthI congratulate my hon. Friend and colleagues from the Liverpool city region on securing £1.6 billion of transport investment. As he will remember, he and I were on a visit…04 Jun 2025HANSARDRegional GrowthOf course, the announcement today is on funding for combined authority mayors, which is why the west of England combined authority mayor has received two-thirds of £1 billion of…04 Jun 2025HANSARDRegional GrowthOne of the many benefits of the funding announced today for city regions is the positive effect that it will have for communities along these transport lines and for people who…04 Jun 2025HANSARDRegional GrowthI thank my hon. Friend for her question and her vociferous campaigning to ensure that we deliver on our promises to invest in left-behind areas across the country after years of…04 Jun 2025HANSARDRegional GrowthThe right hon. Member raises important points that my colleagues in the Department for Transport will no doubt have heard. I am sure that he is talking to them about the delivery…04 Jun 2025HANSARDRegional GrowthI congratulate my hon. Friend on working so positively with the Mayor of West Yorkshire to secure this historic amount of investment in her community. She asked specifically if…04 Jun 2025HANSARDRegional GrowthThe hon. Member is encouraging me to get ahead of the statement and answer questions about next week’s spending review. All I can say for now is that the Labour Government are…04 Jun 2025HANSARDRegional GrowthI thank my hon. Friend for championing jobs and livelihoods in her constituency and the region, and for welcoming the historic £1.8 billion of investment announced today for…04 Jun 2025HANSARDRegional GrowthI think that the hon. Member and I can agree on one important thing, which is the failed promises of the last Conservative Government, who made decisions that undercut investment…04 Jun 2025HANSARDRegional GrowthI thank my hon. Friend for her excellent work as Chair of the Transport Committee, which has shown on a cross-party basis why the announcements we have made today are good for the…04 Jun 2025HANSARDRegional GrowthI thank the hon. Member for, I think, welcoming the nearly £1 billion of investment in transport for the west of England, which we know is a thriving part of the country. With the…04 Jun 2025HANSARDRegional GrowthMy hon. Friend the Chair of the Treasury Committee rightly alludes to the fact that the Chancellor’s speech today makes the case for this Government investing in every part of the…04 Jun 2025HANSARDRegional GrowthI am pleased to see the shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury back in his place today; I always enjoy our exchanges. I welcome the fact that he supports our plans and sees the…04 Jun 2025HANSARDRegional GrowthWith permission, I shall update the House on the Government’s work to boost growth across the United Kingdom. As the Prime Minister set out in the plan for change, economic growth…04 Jun 2025HANSARDRegional GrowthI thank my hon. Friend for making the case for his constituency. As he says, the announcements today are for areas with combined authority mayors. The Government have said that if…04 Jun 2025HANSARDRegional GrowthI thank the right hon. Member for his question, which recognises the significant increase in investment in defence and security that this Labour Government are making. He has…04 Jun 2025HANSARDRegional GrowthI thank my hon. Friend for his leadership of the all-party group and for, alongside his colleagues and the mayor, making such a powerful case for investment in his region. There…04 Jun 2025HANSARDRegional GrowthMy hon. Friend rightly raises the point that the best combined authority mayors are those who work with local Members of Parliament and their communities to ensure that money is…04 Jun 2025