Oral Answers to Questions

Chris Bryant Excerpts

Thursday 1st March 2018 Commons Chamber

[Jesse Norman]

I am absolutely aware of that. My hon. Friend has been a tireless campaigner for that road over the years. I reassure him that we recognise the concern that he indicates. The Department has received the funding bid for the Shrewsbury north-west relief road, and it is being actively and currently considered.

[Chris Bryant (Rhondda) (Lab)]

The Government are intending to close the driving test centre in Pontypridd and move it to Llantrisant, which will make it far more inconvenient for people in the Rhondda—one of the poorest constituencies in the land—and probably more difficult for people cost-effectively to learn how to drive safely. It will also put the driving test centre in a place that does not have suitable roads for people to do the test properly. Will the Minister look again at closing the Pontypridd driving test centre?

[Mr Speaker]

That is what is called the art of shoehorning in the tangential.

[Chris Bryant]

I did it nicely.

[Mr Speaker]

He did do it nicely. We congratulate the hon. Gentleman on his ingenuity.

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[Ms Ghani]

I apologise to my right hon. Friend the Member for Derbyshire Dales (Sir Patrick McLoughlin) for my earlier mistake.

[Chris Bryant (Rhondda) (Lab)]

Resign!

[Ms Ghani]

Perhaps not right now, but I will consider it in future. I was expecting a question on High Speed 2.