Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Department: Department for Transport

Oral Answers to Questions

Jess Brown-Fuller Excerpts
Thursday 15th May 2025

(1 day, 22 hours ago)

Commons Chamber
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Lilian Greenwood Portrait Lilian Greenwood
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We are providing record amounts for local authorities this year, and we hope to provide a long-term funding settlement for local roads maintenance after the spending review.

Jess Brown-Fuller Portrait Jess Brown-Fuller (Chichester) (LD)
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Will the Secretary of State accept my warm invitation to visit my constituency and sit in traffic with me so she can experience what my constituents experience morning, noon and night on the A27, which is strangling economic growth in the area and preventing investment?

Heidi Alexander Portrait Heidi Alexander
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As tempting as the hon. Lady’s invitation is, I regret that I will not be able to do that, and I will not commit the Roads Minister to it either, but we will look at the matters she raises and write to her with an update on the action we think could be taken to improve the situation.