Autumn Statement Debate

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Department: HM Treasury

Autumn Statement

Maggie Throup Excerpts
Wednesday 23rd November 2016

(8 years ago)

Commons Chamber
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Lord Hammond of Runnymede Portrait Mr Hammond
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I welcome the question from a former Transport Committee Chairman—[Hon. Members: “She still is!”] All right. I welcome the question even more. If I remember rightly, she was the Chairman when I was a member of the Select Committee, so she probably gets the prize for longevity.

I have deliberately chosen not to read out great, long lists of specific projects and allocations of funding, but rather to create a framework, and what I said in the statement—I will repeat it now—is that my right hon. Friend the Transport Secretary will make a series of announcements about the detailed allocations over the coming weeks.

Maggie Throup Portrait Maggie Throup (Erewash) (Con)
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May I ask the Chancellor to urge the Transport Secretary to spend some of the £1.1 billion on a new motorway junction between junctions 25 and 26 on the M1, which would undoubtedly improve growth and productivity in my constituency?

Lord Hammond of Runnymede Portrait Mr Hammond
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One of my thoughts in deciding not to announce all the allocations personally was that I would avoid the lobbying for individual projects. I had not realised that I would be invited to act as a conduit to the Transport Secretary, but in this case and because it is my hon. Friend, I will pass on her request.