Thursday 25th October 2012

(12 years ago)

Lords Chamber
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Earl Attlee Portrait Earl Attlee
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My Lords, the important thing is that we adhere to the rules.

Lord Addington Portrait Lord Addington
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My Lords, is it not a point of pride that this Government are using far fewer cars and that our Ministers are now travelling on public transport, and thus might be in a better position to make decisions about the future of that transport?

Earl Attlee Portrait Earl Attlee
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My noble friend makes an important point. I do not even use public transport to get to the Department of Transport. I walk; it takes me 10 minutes exactly. The important thing is that we have reduced the size of the ministerial car fleet from about 200 to 92.