Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Department: Department for Transport

Oral Answers to Questions

Robert Halfon Excerpts
Thursday 18th January 2018

(6 years, 11 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Jesse Norman Portrait Jesse Norman
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I will be delighted to meet the hon. Gentleman and colleagues about that. As he will be aware, the DFT was awarded £77 million at spring Budget 2016 for the upper Orwell crossings. That scheme was one of the first large local majors to be funded. We will happily revisit any discussion he wishes to have on this topic.

Robert Halfon Portrait Robert Halfon (Harlow) (Con)
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Does my hon. Friend recognise that many hospitals around the country do not have good public transport links? For that reason, will he write to the Health Secretary urging him to scrap hospital car parking charges?

Jesse Norman Portrait Jesse Norman
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As my right hon. Friend will know, the first debate I ever secured in the House of Commons was on car parking charges at Hereford Hospital—[Interruption.]