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HANSARDTransportI would like to update the House on action we have taken against the behaviour of Insulate Britain activists. Last year I asked National Highways to seek injunctions against the…08 Feb 2022HANSARDTransport for London Funding Settlement: Interim ExtensionFollowing my statement to the House on 5 January, I am updating the House on an interim extension of the current Transport for London (TfL) funding settlement that was due to…07 Feb 2022HANSARDDocklands Light RailwayAs I have mentioned a couple of times, we have the biggest ever programme of bus service improvements. We have gone out to local authorities to ask them for their plans, and we…03 Feb 2022HANSARDDocklands Light RailwayWe would be very pleased to organise that meeting with my hon. Friend. I will set up a meeting for him with the Minister with responsibility for roads. As the House knows, we are…03 Feb 2022HANSARDDocklands Light RailwayNo, that is absolutely incorrect. We have just heard about this Government’s investment in Stoke. That is investment we are going to spread across the country. It is false to…03 Feb 2022HANSARDDocklands Light RailwayI am really pleased that the hon. Lady has raised this, because I have seen her tweet and talk about it elsewhere and I want to inform her that she is inadvertently misleading.…03 Feb 2022HANSARDDocklands Light RailwayWe currently have a trial programme for e-scooters, with 31 trials in operation, which is collecting the data that the hon. Lady seeks. I share her concerns, particularly about…03 Feb 2022HANSARDDocklands Light RailwayThe difficult decisions that need to be made have to be made by every Government, but I think what the hon. Lady was pointing out was just how generous the grant funding is,…03 Feb 2022HANSARDDocklands Light RailwayIf the hon. Lady is exempt from levelling up, we need to have a word with the Mayor of London about it, because transport in her constituency is run by him, of course. On a…03 Feb 2022HANSARDDocklands Light RailwayI would like to update the House on action we have taken against the behaviour of Insulate Britain activists. Last year I asked National Highways to seek injunctions against the…03 Feb 2022HANSARDTransport for London: Financial SettlementThe trouble is, when someone writes that kind of passage in advance and practises it in front of the mirror, they potentially miss the announcement that was made in the original…03 Feb 2022HANSARDTransport for London: Financial SettlementMy hon. Friend is a terrific champion of a fair settlement. It is the easiest thing in the world for someone to propose a tax that people other than their own residents pay, which…03 Feb 2022HANSARDTransport for London: Financial SettlementIt is for the Mayor to take decisions about how to balance the TfL budget. We are committed to supporting the system and have done so with hard cash—£4.5 billion and counting.03 Feb 2022HANSARDFuel Duty FreezeIt is genuinely true to say that there is not a more expensive Member of Parliament because the cuts—or the freezes—that my right hon. Friend has persuaded successive Chancellors…03 Feb 2022HANSARDClosed Rail Lines: RestorationHuddersfield massively benefits from the £96 billion plan—the biggest plan that any Government have ever announced on railway funding. By the way, it is bigger than the plan that…03 Feb 2022HANSARDClosed Rail Lines: RestorationNo, I do not agree. It has taken 50 years for a UK Government to come along and reopen the lines that were closed under Beeching and successive Governments. We are the ones…03 Feb 2022HANSARDClosed Rail Lines: RestorationI certainly can. Regarding the Skipton-East Lancashire Rail Action Partnership—or SELRAP—and the rail link between Skipton and Colne, I appreciate my hon. Friend’s unstinting…03 Feb 2022HANSARDClosed Rail Lines: RestorationI absolutely agree with my hon. Friend—and, it seems, yourself, Mr Speaker—that it would be a great idea. My hon. Friend is a fantastic champion for the people of Southport. I…03 Feb 2022HANSARDClosed Rail Lines: RestorationWe are committed to reversing the Beeching cuts and reopening railways through our £500 million restoring your railway fund. I was pleased to reopen the first such line—the…03 Feb 2022HANSARDFuel Duty FreezeI regularly speak to the Chancellor about the impact of the fuel duty freeze, which has now run for 12 consecutive years, in no small way thanks to my right hon. Friend.03 Feb 2022