Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Stephen Flynn and Rebecca Pow

Thursday 28th October 2021 Commons Chamber

[Rebecca Pow]

I am genuinely interested in my hon. Friend’s work. This area comes under Department for Transport responsibilities; it does not have any plans as such to reinstate the freight facilities grant in England, but the Government are of course very interested in the shift to getting freight transported in other ways. The fund I mentioned earlier has mostly gone to rail because the case has to be made for whether it is better to do it by water, so I recommend that my hon. Friend gets in there and makes that case, remembering of course the other great benefits of waterways, especially through cities, for health and wellbeing.

[Stephen Flynn (Aberdeen South) (SNP)]

8. What recent discussions he has had with the (a) Prime Minister and (b) US Administration on agricultural exports to the United States.