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Oral Answers to Questions

Priti Patel Excerpts
Tuesday 9th April 2019

(5 years, 1 month ago)

Commons Chamber
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Priti Patel Portrait Priti Patel (Witham) (Con)
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The freeze in fuel duty has helped hauliers across Essex, but of course there is another measure that could help our hauliers and businesses even more, which would be to dual the A120. Will my right hon. Friend have a word with the Department for Transport to see how we can use the taxes raised to get this road dualled?

Lord Hammond of Runnymede Portrait Mr Hammond
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Never a Treasury questions goes by without my right hon. Friend raising the dualling of the A120. Of course we have a very large fund available, with £25.3 billion for strategic roads, and I am sure my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Transport is well aware of the compelling arguments in favour of dualling the A120.