Debates between Mike Amesbury and Alun Cairns during the 2017-2019 Parliament

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Debate between Mike Amesbury and Alun Cairns
Wednesday 31st January 2018

(6 years, 10 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Mike Amesbury Portrait Mike Amesbury
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If providing funding to remove the tolls from the Severn bridge is good enough for the people of Wales, why not extend such a generous Government offer to the people of Cheshire and Merseyside and do away with the tolls on the Mersey Gateway?

Alun Cairns Portrait Alun Cairns
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The tolls on the Severn crossing have been there for more than 50 years, and the Mersey Gateway bridge has very different levels of tolls from those that were levied on the Severn crossing. Locals will not have to pay on the Mersey Gateway bridge, other than the £10 administration fee; locals around the Severn tolls have had to pay the full charge for 50 years.