Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Peter Dowd and John McDonnell

Tuesday 18th April 2017 Commons Chamber

[John McDonnell]

Seven years.

[Peter Dowd]

Yes, seven years.

Although the £6 billion investment for a new two-mile lower Thames crossing is welcome, how does such imbalanced infrastructure spending help to close the economic gap of regions outside London and the south-east? Does not that simply reaffirm the Government’s pathological incapacity to see much beyond the M25? I will be happy to buy the Chancellor a satnav if he wants to take the opportunity to use it.