Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Department: Department for Transport

Oral Answers to Questions

Charlotte Leslie Excerpts
Thursday 7th November 2013

(10 years, 6 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Lord McLoughlin Portrait Mr McLoughlin
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We all want local authority highways agencies to give greater consideration to cycling. After meeting British Cycling a few weeks ago, I instructed the Highways Agency that all the highways schemes that it comes forward with must be cycle-proofed. There are some irresponsible drivers and some irresponsible cyclists. We all have a responsibility to get the message across to everybody: “Be careful on our roads.”

Charlotte Leslie Portrait Charlotte Leslie (Bristol North West) (Con)
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T8. How can the Secretary of State reassure the people of Bristol, who want enhanced branch lines, that having HS2 for London and the north will not mean that the south-west is left out? Will he look positively at bids to reopen the Henbury loop line in north Bristol?