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Commons Chamber
Business of the House - Thu 20 Apr 2017
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Valerie Vaz (LAB - Walsall South) This is about her dithering and confusion, and watching her back. - Speech Link
2: Lord Coaker (LAB - Life peer) In Nottinghamshire, there is a £320 million backlog on road repairs and some of the roads in my constituency - Speech Link
3: David Lidington (CON - Aylesbury) carry out other essential road maintenance, as well as providing for central Government spending on - Speech Link


Grand Committee
High Speed Rail (London–West Midlands) Bill
Committee: 2nd sitting (Hansard): House of Lords - Thu 12 Jan 2017
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Lord Berkeley (LAB - Life peer) As I think I mentioned the other day, there are several motorways and national railways to cross. - Speech Link
2: Lord Berkeley (LAB - Life peer) On the other hand, I do not want to see the promoter being stupid and closing two parallel motorways - Speech Link
3: Lord Berkeley (LAB - Life peer) how it can make changes to timetables, maintenance and things like that. - Speech Link
4: Lord Adonis (LAB - Life peer) lines is that maintenance work will be done overnight and it is therefore essential that the lines - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
National Health Service Funding - Tue 22 Nov 2016
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Jonathan Ashworth (LAB - Leicester South) The NHS maintenance budgets have been repeatedly raided, with billions that had been allocated to capital - Speech Link
2: Jonathan Ashworth (LAB - Leicester South) situation has got so bad that the NHS faces a backlog of £5 billion in repairs. - Speech Link
3: Helen Jones (LAB - Warrington North) Friend agree that proposals to downgrade A&E in an area such as Warrington, which is surrounded by motorways - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Great Western Railway Routes - Mon 08 Feb 2016
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Anne Marie Morris (CON - Newton Abbot) More signalling repair and restoration is going on, along with more repairs to the sea wall, whose footpath - Speech Link
2: Fiona Mactaggart (LAB - Slough) We are going to get smart motorways, but with hard-shoulder running, if there is an accident, it takes - Speech Link
3: Scott Mann (CON - North Cornwall) and make it a better place to live, work and play. - Speech Link
4: Claire Perry (CON - Devizes) They still work, and they are a tribute to their engineering, design and maintenance, but they are now - Speech Link
5: Claire Perry (CON - Devizes) We are expanding the Long Rock train maintenance site at Penzance to maintain those trains, and of course - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Flooding - Wed 06 Jan 2016
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Elizabeth Truss (CON - South West Norfolk) It is based on both capital and maintenance spending. - Speech Link
2: Jamie Reed (LAB - Copeland) It is all well and good announcing support, but until repairs actually start it is not much use. - Speech Link
3: Craig Whittaker (CON - Calder Valley) £40 million for flood defence repairs in Yorkshire. - Speech Link
4: Barry Gardiner (LAB - Brent North) We are talking of wholesale repairs, rebuilding bridges and floodwalls after they have been destroyed - Speech Link
5: Alex Cunningham (LAB - Stockton North) and the Treasury and others have to treat them in the same way as motorways, trunk roads and other infrastructure - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Thu 22 Jan 2015
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Lord McLoughlin (CON - Life peer) financial situation we found ourselves in when we entered government, we allocated 27% more for road repairs - Speech Link
2: Andrew Jones (CON - Harrogate and Knaresborough) Can the impact of rurality be better reflected in funding for future repairs to our road network? - Speech Link
3: John Hayes (CON - South Holland and The Deepings) Road maintenance is just short of £1 billion a year. - Speech Link
4: John Hayes (CON - South Holland and The Deepings) That is already happening with smart motorways. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Queen’s Speech - Wed 11 Jun 2014
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Lord West of Spithead (LAB - Life peer) Consequently, there is a lack of time for basic maintenance before ships deploy, churn and outflow of - Speech Link
2: Lord Alderdice (LDEM - Life peer) and feel moved to act and react. - Speech Link
3: Lord Hunt of Chesterton (LAB - Life peer) meters in cars to indicate the level of their carbon emissions; or, as in France, to inform drivers on motorways - Speech Link
4: Lord Rodgers of Quarry Bank (LDEM - Life peer) Heritage was “delighted” that the Government would provide a one-off sum of £80 million to invest in repairs - Speech Link
5: Lord Wallace of Tankerness (LDEM - Life peer) was announced that a two-year grant scheme will provide £20 million to help to carry out essential repairs - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Queen’s Speech - Thu 05 Jun 2014
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Lord Horam (CON - Life peer) rail capacity, we need more motorways and trunk roads. - Speech Link
2: Lord Bradshaw (LDEM - Life peer) Who exercises proper discipline over the quality of repairs carried out by the utilities that constantly - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Draft National Policy Statement for National Networks - Thu 08 May 2014
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Lord Bradshaw (LDEM - Life peer) That may seem like a detail, but lots of people live alongside motorways, and this is a constant bone - Speech Link
2: Lord Rosser (LAB - Life peer) motorways against which we should be considering the content, significance and impact of this draft national - Speech Link
3: Baroness Kramer (LDEM - Life peer) in the document—improvements in safety, resilience, maintenance and environmental performance, and stresses - Speech Link
4: Baroness Kramer (LDEM - Life peer) I assure the House that we are investing very heavily in maintenance, resilience and pothole repairs, - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
High Speed Rail (London – West Midlands) Bill - Mon 28 Apr 2014
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Cheryl Gillan (CON - Chesham and Amersham) need major investment and repairs, and that our classic railway will suffer. - Speech Link
2: Lord McLoughlin (CON - Life peer) It provides the authority to undertake works required for the construction and maintenance of phase 1 - Speech Link
3: Mary Creagh (LAB - Wakefield) maintenance, and 30,000 jobs at Old Oak Common, Euston and Birmingham. - Speech Link
4: Jonathan Reynolds (LAB - Stalybridge and Hyde) motorways and promote some sort of regional autarky. - Speech Link
5: Jeremy Lefroy (CON - Stafford) As we have heard, it will continue to require substantial maintenance and probably increasing public - Speech Link