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HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillMy Lords, it is a great pleasure to follow the noble Baroness. She started off her speech so well with her kind remarks about a speech that I had not yet given. Having listened to…02 Jun 2025HANSARDDecision Deadline Extensions for Proposed Developments and National Networks NPS.This statement confirms that it is necessary to extend the deadlines for decisions on the following three applications made under the Planning Act 2008: The A122 (Lower Thames…24 May 2024HANSARDRoad ResurfacingThe hon. Lady has just demonstrated why our decision to allocate a very significant and unprecedented increase in spending to improving local highway maintenance is exactly the…16 May 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsI will say a couple of things. First, the hon. Lady called for action. My hon. Friend the roads Minister has already been meeting the industry and Treasury Ministers, who are…16 May 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsI am grateful to my hon. Friend—and Gloucestershire neighbour—for raising that issue. He rightly sets out that his constituency is one of the fastest growing. He is a doughty…16 May 2024HANSARDRoad ResurfacingI am delighted that the hon. Gentleman has asked that question, because we have set out our plan very carefully. There is £8.3 billion of extra money to improve the quality of…16 May 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsSince the last Transport questions, my Department has been getting on with our plans: £143 million for new zero-emission buses; a world-leading sustainable aviation fuel mandate;…16 May 2024HANSARDRoad ResurfacingI am pleased that the hon. Lady has asked that question, because I absolutely do. Part of our purpose in not only giving local authorities that significant funding increase but…16 May 2024HANSARDRoad ResurfacingMy right hon. Friend is correct: Shropshire County Council will receive two pots of money, a minimum uplift of £153 million from 2023 to 2034 for highway maintenance and a further…16 May 2024HANSARDRoad ResurfacingMy understanding is that the A180 is part of the National Highways concrete roads programme and that there is a plan to undertake additional treatment to reduce noise…16 May 2024HANSARDTransport Connectivity: North-westThe hon. Lady will know that over the last two years the Government have made significant interventions to keep rail fares rising no faster than the rise in people’s wages. She…16 May 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsI am grateful to the hon. Lady for advance notice of the question—she wrote to me this morning. I will say a few things. First, she will know that the insurance industry is the…16 May 2024HANSARDVehicle RegulationsI am pleased to inform the House that today I am publishing a strategy setting out our approach to the future regulation of road vehicles. Following our departure from the EU, we…16 May 2024HANSARDTransport Connectivity: North-westAs my hon. Friend knows, I recently hosted a roundtable, bringing together him, his local authority, Lancashire County Council, local rail operators and other interested parties…16 May 2024HANSARDTransport Connectivity: North-westI am grateful to my hon. Friend for welcoming the money that will go to her local authority. We will make it clear in the guidance, which I hope will be welcome to you as well, Mr…16 May 2024HANSARDTransport Connectivity: North-westBefore I answer my hon. Friend’s question, may I just welcome very strongly your statement at the beginning of business, Mr Speaker, standing up for the rights of Members to…16 May 2024HANSARDTransport Connectivity: North-westI am not entirely certain—the Rail Minister, my hon. Friend the Member for Bexhill and Battle (Huw Merriman) set out clearly the improved performance that we have seen this year.…16 May 2024HANSARDBus ManufacturingAs I said, UK bus manufacturers have done very well out of decarbonisation policies. They are every competitive, and I have had the opportunity in this job to visit a number of…16 May 2024HANSARDBus ManufacturingPeople are able to put social value into their tenders. My understanding is that local authorities do that, but they are not allowed to have a specific commitment to buy from a…16 May 2024HANSARDBus ManufacturingThe hon. Gentleman will know that it is not possible, given our international commitments under the World Trade Organisation, to specify that people have to buy British buses. He…16 May 2024