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HANSARDRising Fuel Costs: Impact on MotoristsThe hon. Member is right to point out the fantastic work done by haulage companies and all their workers. Over the next five years, the 2022-23 freeze will represent £8 billion…17 Mar 2022HANSARDElectric VehiclesThe hon. Gentleman presents a partial picture because he forgets that there are 300,000 chargers installed at people’s homes, with Government support. In addition, the figures…17 Mar 2022HANSARDElectric VehiclesWe are always looking at what more we can do. We put in £1.9 billion in the 2020 spending review, and we have enhanced that with an extra £620 million for the transition. I will…17 Mar 2022HANSARDElectric VehiclesAs we said in our manifesto, we will deliver the 4,000 buses during this Parliament, and we are on track to do so. I have just given the hon. Gentleman the up-to-date information…17 Mar 2022HANSARDTopical QuestionsMy hon. Friend will have seen my action with regard to Cockfosters station. The plan would have removed all but 12 car parking spaces, and while I am keen to get people using…17 Mar 2022HANSARDTopical QuestionsThe hon. Lady asks a series of very good questions. We are working very hard on things like access for all on rail. She asks a number of bus-related questions, and we have put…17 Mar 2022HANSARDInternational TravelI thank my hon. Friend for his comments. I do not want to disappoint him or his wife. It is incoming traffic that will have the reduction in bureaucracy. On outgoing, we still…15 Mar 2022HANSARDInternational TravelI absolutely will do that. I know that Border Force has been working hard, sometimes under difficult conditions. Many people do not realise that every time there was a change in…15 Mar 2022HANSARDInternational TravelIt is certainly the case that the vast majority of the vaccinations through Oxford-AstraZeneca have gone to mid and lower-income countries. Many will have been used by…15 Mar 2022HANSARDInternational TravelFor the sake of completeness, I will mention Ireland, Iceland, Lithuania, Norway and Slovenia, which have either removed or will shortly remove measures to put themselves in the…15 Mar 2022HANSARDInternational TravelI do not think it is too much of an exaggeration to say that virtually nobody in the House has done more than my hon. Friend to promote the case of the hard-pressed aviation…15 Mar 2022HANSARDInternational TravelI should point out to the hon. Gentleman and the House that the UK Health Security Agency is a four-nations body made up of the chief medical officers from all parts of the United…15 Mar 2022HANSARDInternational TravelMy hon. Friend is absolutely right. We all remember Margaret Keenan receiving that very first properly approved vaccination in the entire world, and that happened in this country.…15 Mar 2022HANSARDInternational TravelI absolutely agree with my hon. Friend. Ensuring that Border Force and its resources are in the right place will be important, especially when our airports get busier again. I…15 Mar 2022HANSARDInternational TravelI thought we were here to talk about releasing the final covid measures, but I am always up for the challenge and I am happy to respond to the hon. Lady. She started by talking…15 Mar 2022HANSARDInternational TravelWith your permission, Madam Deputy Speaker, I would like to make a statement about international travel. It is almost two years to the day since the country first went into…15 Mar 2022HANSARDLocal Transport: Covid-19 RecoverySince the beginning of the pandemic, the Government have provided unprecedented financial support to the bus and light rail sectors, in England outside London. Through the…01 Mar 2022HANSARDTransportFurther to my statement to the House on 21 February 2022, I am updating the House on a new extraordinary funding settlement between Transport for London and the Government which…25 Feb 2022HANSARDTransport for London Funding Settlement: Interim ExtensionI am updating the House on an interim extension of the current Transport for London funding settlement that was due to expire on 18 February 2022 by one week to 25 February 2022.…21 Feb 2022HANSARDTransportThat brings the total number of sentences and suspended sentences handed down to 34 .08 Feb 2022