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Public Bill Committees
Highways (Financing) Bill (Fourth sitting)
Committee stage: 4th sitting - Tue 03 Nov 2026
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Justin Madders (Lab - Ellesmere Port and Bromborough) However, safe roads require maintenance, and maintenance sometimes requires roadworks. - Speech Link
2: Justin Madders (Lab - Ellesmere Port and Bromborough) A licensed highway is treated as a highway maintainable at the public expense for the purposes of the - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Highways (Financing) Bill (Third sitting)
Committee stage: 3rd sitting - Tue 03 Nov 2026
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Justin Madders (Lab - Ellesmere Port and Bromborough) That enables local highway authorities to feed in their views where roads may be affected. - Speech Link
2: Justin Madders (Lab - Ellesmere Port and Bromborough) We are very clear that the clause is about the specified highway. It is about the trunk road. - Speech Link
3: Justin Madders (Lab - Ellesmere Port and Bromborough) A licence may support the construction of a highway; it may support the improvement of an existing highway - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Highways (Financing) Bill (First sitting) - Thu 29 Oct 2026
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Greg Smith (Con - Mid Buckinghamshire) , operation or improvement of any other highway”.Is it the view of your organisation and members that - Speech Link
2: Greg Smith (Con - Mid Buckinghamshire) where that highway is or what the competing interests are with housing, the economy, routes and so on - Speech Link
3: Justin Madders (Lab - Ellesmere Port and Bromborough) of the licensed area, which is the part of the highway where capacity is being increased as part of - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Highways (Financing) Bill
2nd reading2nd Reading - Thu 15 Oct 2026
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Justin Madders (Lab - Ellesmere Port and Bromborough) For our roads, it starts by granting a licence for a specific highway project to a private investor. - Speech Link
2: Christopher Chope (Con - Christchurch) Frankly, from my own perspective, I once argued that the best way for us to promote important highway - Speech Link
3: Greg Smith (Con - Mid Buckinghamshire) or improvement of a highway specified in the licence which has been…constructed in pursuance of the - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Chetwynd Bridge - Wed 14 Oct 2026
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Simon Lightwood (LAB - Wakefield and Rothwell) Friend said regarding emergency services.I want to ensure that all highway authorities have what they - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Bus Stops - Wed 09 Sep 2026
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Alex Mayer (Lab - Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard) from Cambridgeshire county council:“It should be noted that whilst bus shelters are located on the highway - Speech Link
2: Justin Madders (Lab - Ellesmere Port and Bromborough) identifying priorities for investment and setting locally appropriate standards for facilities and maintenance - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Rural Upper-tier Local Authorities - Wed 02 Sep 2026
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Olly Glover (LD - Didcot and Wantage) For the current financial year, Oxfordshire’s Government allocation for highway maintenance is £33.5 - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Thu 16 Jul 2026
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Simon Lightwood (LAB - Wakefield and Rothwell) Government are providing local authorities with a record £7.3 billion investment in local road maintenance - Speech Link
2: Bayo Alaba (Lab - Southend East and Rochford) Minister provide to rural and coastal constituencies, like mine, that want to enhance and modernise highway - Speech Link
3: Lilian Greenwood (Lab - Nottingham South) This Government are investing record sums in road maintenance, and we have strengthened the rules on - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Sporting Events Bill [HL]
Report stage - Wed 15 Jul 2026
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Lord Harlech (Con - Life peer) It covers processions and assemblies on the public highway and it answers the resourcing question the - Speech Link
2: Baroness Boycott (XB - Life peer) Some £200 million of that goes in repairs and maintenance, and £120 million goes in lost revenue from - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Holding the Line Against Tyranny and Anarchy (Constitution Committee Report) - Thu 09 Jul 2026
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Lord Waldegrave of North Hill (Con - Life peer) knows how to carry out its two central tasks: defence against foreign enemies and satisfactory maintenance - Speech Link
2: Lord Beith (LD - Life peer) expectation that all but a few of the other drivers and pedestrians will keep to the law and observe the Highway - Speech Link
3: Baroness Levitt (Lab - Life peer) Those achievements require constant vigilance, as well as careful and disciplined maintenance. - Speech Link