"T7. The OBR’s “Economic and fiscal outlook” published alongside the Budget last week included forecasted revenues from Rosebank. Yet the Prime Minister and the Secretary of State for Energy and Net Zero maintain that no decision has been taken on Rosebank. Will the Chancellor therefore acknowledge that if Rosebank is …..." Douglas Lumsden - View Speech
"It is a pleasure to serve under your stewardship, Mr Dowd. Can the Minister give us any idea of how much the sustainable measures are actually costing on the project?..." Douglas Lumsden - View Speech
"Last week, we heard that the Bill is potentially a Trojan horse. We could have narrowed its scope earlier to just the lower Thames crossing with amendment 46, but that was ruled out. We also have issues with what constitutes an “improvement…increasing the capacity”. We have heard that that is …..." Douglas Lumsden - View Speech
"I am struggling to understand something about the Bill. If an improvement is made on a small section of a 100-mile road, is it clear whether tolls could be introduced for the whole road or just for the section that was improved?..." Douglas Lumsden - View Speech
"I asked this question of my hon. Friend the Member for Mid Buckinghamshire and I will ask the Minister the same. When this Bill comes into play, if an improvement were made on one small section of a road, could a toll be introduced for the whole length of that …..." Douglas Lumsden - View Speech
"The amendment is asking for a couple of specific things to be in the review:
“the financial performance and resilience of the licence holder, including the returns generated from toll revenues, and…the impact of the operation of the highway and the tolls charged on traffic volumes and congestion on surrounding …..." Douglas Lumsden - View Speech
"I am trying to think of possible compensation schemes. If, for example, a person’s property has been blighted by a new road that has been constructed, who would be liable for that? Would it be the licensee? Would that transfer to a new owner as well?..." Douglas Lumsden - View Speech
"I am trying to work out who is responsible for property blight. Would it be the licence holder? Would it be the Highways Agency? Who would it be?..." Douglas Lumsden - View Speech
"The Minister is right that we do not know what the vehicles of the future will look like, but it should not be up to the holder of the licence to dictate what should be in people’s cars. If we think about the Bill, this is not about just the …..." Douglas Lumsden - View Speech