Roads: Long and Heavy Vehicles Debate

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House of Lords: Reform

Roads: Long and Heavy Vehicles

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IMF and World Bank: Appointment Procedures
Wednesday 1st December 2010

(13 years, 5 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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Earl Attlee Portrait Earl Attlee
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My Lords, we discussed lorry road-user charging recently at Question Time. We are working on it and will announce on it in due course.

Lord Bradshaw Portrait Lord Bradshaw
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Can the Minister assure us that road safety will play a very prominent part in his consideration, because these lorries will not be confined to the motorway network? Will he please tell us, through the Library or however, how many prosecutions have been brought against HGVs—heavy goods vehicles—for contravening the weight restrictions on most of our roads?

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