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Westminster Hall
Flood Recovery Framework - Wed 17 Apr 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: James Heappey (Con - Wells) Minister could offer some thoughts on that.There is also an issue around local authority budgets and highway - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Automated Vehicles Bill [ Lords ] (First sitting)
Committee stage: 1st sitting - Tue 19 Mar 2024
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Grahame Morris (Lab - Easington) What defeated the trial in Australia was the unpredictable nature of kangaroos crossing the highway, - Speech Link
2: Anthony Browne (Con - South Cambridgeshire) As with the highway code, references to road safety already legally apply to all road users, including - Speech Link
3: Anthony Browne (Con - South Cambridgeshire) type that Waymo has in America, the NUICO—the no-user-in-charge operator—will be responsible for the maintenance - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
A379 Slapton Line - Wed 06 Mar 2024
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Anthony Mangnall (Con - Totnes) document made a number of recommendations, including that the road should continue to be maintained as a highway - Speech Link
2: Guy Opperman (Con - Hexham) Devon County Council receives significant funding—in fact, more highway maintenance funding per capita - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Automated Vehicles Bill [Lords]
2nd reading - Tue 05 Mar 2024
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Iain Stewart (Con - Milton Keynes South) about self-driving vehicles—about ensuring that the full spectrum of operators in the car repair and maintenance - Speech Link
2: Gavin Newlands (SNP - Paisley and Renfrewshire North) legislation to be updated to account for autonomous vehicles and the implications on traffic laws and the highway - Speech Link
3: Matt Western (Lab - Warwick and Leamington) It would include trade union representation, emergency vehicles, disabled groups, manufacturers, highway - Speech Link
4: Bill Esterson (Lab - Sefton Central) also want to see people with disabilities, pedestrians, cyclists, businesses, emergency services and highway - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Pollution in Rivers and Regulation of Private Water Companies - Thu 29 Feb 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Baroness McIntosh of Pickering (Con - Life peer) Does my noble friend the Minister, whom I welcome to his place today, think it right that national highway - Speech Link
2: Lord Sikka (Lab - Life peer) Maintenance expenditure is taken to the income statement in the period in which it is incurred. - Speech Link
3: Lord Douglas-Miller (Con - Life peer) clear that National Highways is not responsible for pollution from roads, which are managed by local highway - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Pedicabs (London) Bill [Lords]
2nd reading - Wed 28 Feb 2024
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Nickie Aiken (Con - Cities of London and Westminster) Operators must adhere to the highway code and not play blaring music at all hours of the day and night - Speech Link
2: Christopher Chope (Con - Christchurch) and causing mammoth problems for pedestrians in London; and all sorts of other obstructions of the highway - Speech Link
3: Kit Malthouse (Con - North West Hampshire) Friend knows, the use of e-scooters on the highway—other than in certain pilot sites—is illegal. - Speech Link
4: Christopher Chope (Con - Christchurch) but taking a passenger in a pedicab as a result of a hire agreement entered into not from a public highway - Speech Link
5: Kit Malthouse (Con - North West Hampshire) London in a big way, all the hotels, which were very heavily regulated and had significant insurance and maintenance - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Thu 08 Feb 2024
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Mark Harper (Con - Forest of Dean) Network North plan, the Government are providing a record funding increase of £8.3 billion for local highway - Speech Link
2: Mark Harper (Con - Forest of Dean) We have given local authorities more than £5 billion of funding for local road maintenance. - Speech Link
3: Guy Opperman (Con - Hexham) In January 2022, the Government updated the highway code to improve road safety for people walking, cycling - Speech Link
4: Guy Opperman (Con - Hexham) Look at the specific measures taken: we have toughened up the driving test, made the highway code more - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Hedgerows: Legal Protection - Wed 24 Jan 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Selaine Saxby (Con - North Devon) period would benefit not just birds, but bees.Colleagues have told me that there is a problem with highway - Speech Link
2: Alex Sobel (LAB - Leeds North West) invest in those skills and skills-based activities if we are to see the necessary hedgerow planting and maintenance - Speech Link
3: Tim Farron (LD - Westmorland and Lonsdale) which will potentially provide a continuous corridor, much of which is based upon the extension and maintenance - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Automated Vehicles Bill [HL]
Committee stage: Part 1 - Mon 15 Jan 2024
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: None You cannot as a delivery robot do your job if you are constrained to the highway. - Speech Link
2: Lord Davies of Gower (Con - Life peer) The MoT will continue to play an important role in ensuring the ongoing maintenance and roadworthiness - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Automated Vehicles Bill [HL]
Committee stage: Part 1 - Wed 10 Jan 2024
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: None Transport Committee in the other place and the Law Commission have all touched on the need for the ongoing maintenance - Speech Link
2: None There are other things related to the maintenance of our highways—the potholes, large puddles, illegible - Speech Link
3: None We have enough trouble with delivery vehicles and maintenance contractors putting vehicles in strange - Speech Link