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HANSARD Zero Emission Vehicle MandateI can assure my hon. Friend that I will continue to work across Government with colleagues in the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, and in the Department for Business…07 Apr 2025HANSARD Zero Emission Vehicle MandateWe have a £2 billion automotive transformation fund, and we are investing hundreds of millions of pounds in other forms of support. I work closely with the Welsh Government on…07 Apr 2025HANSARD Road MaintenanceI know that the Minister for Future of Roads would be very happy to visit my hon. Friend in his constituency. While we cannot reopen the decision on dualling the A1, we are happy…07 Apr 2025HANSARD Road MaintenanceDecisions on the appropriate speed limits on their roads are decisions for local highways authorities. I will not pretend to know the detail of what my hon. Friend is talking…07 Apr 2025HANSARD Road MaintenanceWe are running a number of Live Labs projects to look at how we can best make use of AI and new technology to ensure we get good value for money in delivering roads maintenance.…07 Apr 2025HANSARD Road MaintenanceI will just make a little bit of progress. I will give way to the hon. Gentleman later. The Government will end decades of decay on our roads. We will lift the lid on how…07 Apr 2025HANSARD Road MaintenanceThe wider transparency and accountability measures we have announced, whereby we are withholding a quarter of the funding uplift until such time as the local authority has…07 Apr 2025HANSARD Road MaintenanceI am aware that the right hon. Gentleman met with my hon. Friend, the Minister for Future of Roads, and I understand that as a follow-up to that meeting, National Highways is…07 Apr 2025HANSARD Road MaintenanceFirst, I congratulate my hon. Friend’s constituents on an excellent sense of humour and perceptiveness in describing the state of the roads in their community. I would say simply…07 Apr 2025HANSARD Road MaintenanceMy hon. Friend is completely right. In some cases, preventive comprehensive road resurfacing will be the appropriate action to take. In total, we are investing around £1.8 billion…07 Apr 2025HANSARD Road MaintenanceI can give my hon. Friend that assurance. That is why we have ploughed a record £1.6 billion into roads maintenance, including a £500 million uplift on last year. That is on top…07 Apr 2025HANSARD Road MaintenanceWe are asking local authorities to publish a report on their websites by June this year. We are tipping more money into highways maintenance and it is absolutely right that people…07 Apr 2025HANSARD Road MaintenanceI hear appreciation from the hon. Gentleman on the Opposition Front Bench. Those works will also include the M3 junction 9 scheme in Hampshire, which will support 2,000 more…07 Apr 2025HANSARD Road MaintenanceI do not know whether the right hon. Gentleman has raised the matter with the local highways authority. I believe there may be the ability to apply a weight restriction on roads…07 Apr 2025HANSARD Road MaintenanceLocal authorities are free to use the money as they see fit, as long as they are using it in a way that represents value for money for the taxpayer. The money can be used for work…07 Apr 2025HANSARD Road MaintenanceMy hon. Friend describes a win-win situation.07 Apr 2025HANSARD Road MaintenanceI beg to move, That this House has considered road maintenance. For too long, Britain has been plagued by potholes. Too many people in too many parts of the country have had their…07 Apr 2025HANSARD Zero Emission Vehicle MandateIt is right that we retain the threat of fines, but I gently point out to the right hon. Gentleman that we do not believe that any manufacturers will have to pay fines in the…07 Apr 2025HANSARD Zero Emission Vehicle MandateI congratulate my hon. Friend on fulfilling his promise to his constituent. We are working closely with local authorities through the local electric vehicle…07 Apr 2025HANSARD Zero Emission Vehicle MandateI was struggling to decipher a question in the speech that was forthcoming from the other side of the Chamber. The right hon. Gentleman asks me to comment on the opening of the…07 Apr 2025