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HANSARDCovid-19: Aviation Sector WorkersIt is a very welcome change, actually, because ordinarily I stand at this Dispatch Box and from my opposite numbers hear a lot of attacks on the aviation sector. I absolutely will…18 May 2020HANSARDM25 Junction 10/A3 Wisley InterchangeThis statement concerns the development consent order application for the M25 junction 10/A3 Wisley interchange improvement made by Highways England under the Planning Act 2008,…13 May 2020HANSARD Covid-19: TransportI am grateful for that point. We have been careful to make it clear in the guidance—including in the 60-page document released yesterday, but also in the transport guidance—that…12 May 2020HANSARD Covid-19: TransportMy hon. Friend is right to point that out. I want to be completely straight with him and with the House: there is a basic dilemma. We have a situation where, probably for the…12 May 2020HANSARD Covid-19: TransportI do not know whether the hon. Gentleman was able to catch the previous statement from my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy; he…12 May 2020HANSARD Covid-19: TransportWith permission, Mr Deputy Speaker, I would like to make a statement about the new transport guidance for passengers and operators that has been published by my Department today.…12 May 2020HANSARD Covid-19: TransportYes, very quickly. It might interest the hon. Member that 44% of all journeys outside London are less than three miles, so there are a lot of people in a lot of circumstances who…12 May 2020HANSARDA38 Derby Junctions Development Consent OrderThis statement concerns the application for the A38 Derby Junctions Development Consent Order made by Highways England under the Planning Act 2008, which had been submitted to the…12 May 2020HANSARD Covid-19: TransportI am keen as mustard on the open-access trains. They are a very good idea. They provide some good competition and tend to have the highest satisfaction levels. The two primary…12 May 2020HANSARD Covid-19: TransportI am grateful to the Chair of the Select Committee for giving me an opportunity to clarify two things. First, we are not advising that medical-level PPE be used—that would go…12 May 2020HANSARD Covid-19: TransportThis goes right to the point I was making earlier: it is very important that our response to this achieves the right balance between taxpayer involvement and protecting the…12 May 2020HANSARD Covid-19: TransportI am very grateful to my right hon. Friend for her question. I absolutely agree with her, as a passionate supporter of aviation, and indeed a qualified pilot, about the importance…12 May 2020HANSARD Covid-19: TransportThe hon. Member is absolutely right. On the one hand, we are saying, “Look, use a car if you can to avoid public transport”—but that is why I put so much emphasis on this £2…12 May 2020HANSARD Covid-19: TransportI have sat in all the Cobra meetings and I have always found, from the First Minister to all the devolved Administrations, that working with them has been extremely constructive.…12 May 2020HANSARD Covid-19: TransportIn terms of where we are at the moment, the last information I saw was that the central estimate is about 130,000 covid-19 active cases in the country. That is coming down all the…12 May 2020HANSARD Covid-19: TransportWords do matter—the hon. Member is absolutely right about that—but they matter in both directions. The more that people try to confuse what are actually pretty straightforward…12 May 2020HANSARD Covid-19: TransportRidership on TfL has increased—yesterday, it was up by 8%. I spoke to and communicated with the Mayor and his deputy Mayor over the weekend. I am encouraging them—and working very…12 May 2020HANSARD Covid-19: TransportI am not sure I accept the entire premise of my right hon. Friend’s question. Motorcycles are an enormously important way of getting around— 2.7 billion miles were travelled by…12 May 2020HANSARD Covid-19: TransportI welcome the hon. Gentleman and congratulate him on his new post. He is right to raise a number of those issues, in particular the extraordinary work being done by our transport…12 May 2020HANSARD Covid-19: TransportAlthough I cannot provide that clarity to my hon. Friend today, because I would want to come to the House first to announce the details of how that money would be divided up, I…12 May 2020