David Nuttall
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(8 years, 5 months ago)
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Mr McLoughlin
I would have hoped that the hon. Lady would have worked with us, with all the investment that we are putting into the railway serving her area. All she has ever done is complain and back up the unions’ unjustified position on the new investment. There has been billions of pounds on new rolling stock and massive investment in London Bridge station. However, all she does is continually complain and take donations from the RMT.
Mr David Nuttall (Bury North) (Con)
What is the Department doing to ensure that the pothole action money is being efficiently spent and to ensure best practice?
Andrew Jones
The pothole action fund has a budget of £250 million across this Parliament. The first allocation has already been made this year. It has been allocated to councils according to the number of highways for which they are responsible. We are looking at how we can make the fund as efficient as possible but the key thing is that we are backing local authorities to improve the quality of their local road network.