Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Department: Department for Transport

Oral Answers to Questions

Richard Burden Excerpts
Thursday 4th December 2014

(10 years, 10 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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John Hayes Portrait Mr Hayes
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This is not the first time that my right hon. Friend has raised this matter. Indeed, since I became a Transport Minister, I have spent a good deal of my life answering his perfectly proper and assiduous inquiries and representations on behalf of his constituents on transport-related affairs. He is right that there is a history of congestion in that area, and I would be more than happy to look at it and take his advice and guidance on the matter.

Richard Burden Portrait Richard Burden (Birmingham, Northfield) (Lab)
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Back in September, the Public Accounts Committee described the Government’s approach to local road maintenance, which, as we know, is a major cause of congestion, as “ludicrous”. Now, despite the rather bashful claims that the Minister has made today about Monday’s road announcement, I have not actually heard members of the PAC queuing up to say that they have changed their mind. Does that not tell him something?