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Whole Day Download the Hansard Thursday Volume 670 30 January 2020 No. 19 HOUSE OF COMMONS OFFICIAL REPORT PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES (HANSARD) Thursday 30 January 2020 © Parliamentary Copyright House of Commons 2020 This publication may be reproduced under the terms of the Open Parliament licence, which is published at www.parliament.uk/site-information/copyright/. 905 30 JANUARY 2020 906 motorways. If the hon. Lady will forgive me, this is House of Commons taking a little longer, but I think we will get to a much better outcome. Thursday 30 January 2020 Karl Turner (Kingston upon Hull East) (Lab): It has been clear for some time that all-lane-running motorways The House met at half-past Nine o’clock are death traps. As my hon. Friend the Member for Rotherham (Sarah Champion) has pointed out, five people have been killed in just 10 months on a 16-mile PRAYERS stretch of the M1. The Secretary of State has the power to scrap these dangerous motorways now, so will he stop this dither and delay and act now to avoid further [MR SPEAKER in the Chair] tragic deaths and serious injuries? Will he also assure the House that there will be no restoration of these motorways without full radar coverage? Oral Answers to Questions Grant Shapps: As I pointed out a moment ago—perhaps after the hon. Gentleman’s question was written—it is important that we gather all the facts. Sadly, 1,700-plus TRANSPORT people died on all our roads in 2018. Motorways of the safest of those roads, but the question is: are smart motorways less safe than the rest of the motorway The Secretary of State was asked— network? For me, we must make them at least as safe, if not safer, otherwise they cannot continue. But we have Road Safety to do this as a fact-based process. I am interested, rightly, in speaking to the families of the victims as well 1. Lilian Greenwood (Nottingham South) (Lab): What as to organisations such as the AA and the RAC and to steps his Department is taking to improve road safety. Members of this House. Forgive me, it does take time to [900500] do this correctly, but I do not think the hon. Gentleman will be disappointed with the results. The Secretary of State for Transport (Grant Shapps): The Government are committed to improving safety on Huw Merriman (Bexhill and Battle) (Con): I should all our roads, and to reducing the numbers of those who like to join the Secretary of State in paying tribute to are needlessly killed and injured. Last July, we published the hon. Member for Nottingham South (Lilian “The road safety statement 2019: a lifetime of road Greenwood) for the way in which she has chaired the safety”. Transport Committee over the past two years. She has done so with great fairness, and she probed with great Lilian Greenwood: The right hon. Member for Hemel diligence as well. I want to give her my thanks for that, Hempstead (Sir Mike Penning) has this week accused and she is also a wonderful friend. Highways England of When it comes to road safety, there is great concern “a shocking degree of carelessness” that school safety is at risk. Would it be possible to set in rolling out all-lane-running motorways,and the chairman up a programme of investment so that the most dangerous of the Police Federation has described smart motorways schools can get the necessary technology and 20 mph as “inherently dangerous”and “a death trap”. I welcomed speed limits put in place? That would also encourage the Secretary of State’s announcement of a rapid evidence the use of walking buses. stocktake, and he promised to bring forward recommendations in a matter of weeks, but it has now been three months. What is he going to do, and when, to Grant Shapps: I congratulate my hon. Friend on his prevent further avoidable deaths? election as Chair of the Select Committee. Yes, I agree with him about working with schools. One point that is Grant Shapps: I should like to start by thanking the often forgotten is that local authorities already have the hon. Lady for her sterling work as Chair of the Select power to reduce speed limits, for example to 20 mph. I Committee on Transport, which I am sure is recognised look forward to working with him as Chair of the by all Members of the House. She is absolutely right Committee. about that stocktake. Two things have happened. First, the general election intervened and took up some weeks. Tracey Crouch (Chatham and Aylesford) (Con): The The other thing that has happened—I say this in all Secretary of State will be aware that the stretch of the sincerity—is that I have uncovered a range of issues M20 that runs through my constituency is due to open that I am not content simply to brush over. I have as an all-lane-running motorway in March, but it does therefore requested further information, and we are not have stopped vehicle detection systems or appropriately nearly there. In this process, I have specifically included spaced emergency refuges. I appreciate that it will be going back to, speaking to and in one case meeting the frustrating for those using it to continue to have cones families of those who have been affected by these issues. and low speed limits, but does he agree that, given the I agree with my right hon. Friend the Member for concerns about safety on all-lane-running motorways, Hemel Hempstead that there is far too much complication it should not open until all those measures have been in having all-lane-running dynamic motorways—smart put in place? 907 Oral Answers 30 JANUARY 2020 Oral Answers 908 Grant Shapps: I am grateful to my hon. Friend, who is right. The Scottish Government have invested in has campaigned on this issue for a long time. That modernisation and electrification schemes, completing stretch of the M20, and all other stretches that are them without cancellation, on the Aberdeen-Inverness currently being worked on, will not be opened until we and Edinburgh-Glasgow lines, the Paisley corridor and have the outcome of the stocktake. many other routes, and we reopened the hugely successful Borders railway. Does the Secretary of State not see Transport Investment: Regional Disparities that that level of ambition is needed to modernise the rail network? If the Government match that ambition, 2. Afzal Khan (Manchester, Gorton) (Lab): What then through consequential funding Scotland could steps he is taking to reduce regional disparities in transport build the rail network of the future and decarbonise investment. [900501] even quicker than our 15-year target. The Secretary of State for Transport (Grant Shapps): Grant Shapps: We share the same ambition, and I We have made clear our ambition to level up opportunity hope the hon. Gentleman will join us in welcoming the across the country, including through more investment Williams rail review which, among other things, will do in transport infrastructure. so much to devolve more power to local communities. Afzal Khan: The removal of Northern’s rail franchise 18. [900519] Damien Moore (Southport) (Con): is long overdue, but that alone will not fix the systematic Historically, one of the greatest areas of disparity is problems of poor infrastructure and lacklustre investment between our cities and our regional seaside towns, such that cripple our rail network. Northerners are frequently as Southport. Does my right hon. Friend agree that the promised investment for new infrastructure projects, reopening of the Burscough curves line would not only but it is rarely delivered. We were promised new platforms give Southport rail users greater access to the network, at Manchester Piccadilly way back in 2014 as part of but contribute significantly to our tourist and retail George Osborne’s northern hub, but the money has economies? never materialised. When can we expect the platforms to be built, so that passengers are no longer left waiting Grant Shapps: I absolutely agree with my hon. Friend hours for trains that never turn up? and pay tribute to him for his doughty campaigning for the reopening of that line. Members across the House Grant Shapps: We are spending £48 billion on rail should have received a letter inviting them to a Beeching over the next five years,not including Northern Powerhouse event here in the House on 4 February at which they can Rail. We are spending £13 billion just in the north and, find out how to apply for schemes in their constituencies. as the hon. Gentleman will know, I made a significant intervention on the Northern franchise yesterday. That level of investment will continue, and a figure that has Mr Richard Holden (North West Durham) (Con): not been exposed enough is that £333 per person is My constituency has no rail line or dual carriageway. spent in the north-west, which compares with £183 per Does my right hon. Friend recognise the challenges person in London. This Government are more committed facing communities such as mine, and will he support to the northern powerhouse, the rail network and the my campaign for better local bus services and a feasibility transport network than any before. study into reopening the rail line from Consett to Newcastle? Gavin Newlands (Paisley and Renfrewshire North) Grant Shapps: I was delighted to visit my hon. Friend’s (SNP): The news about Northern proves that the current constituency to see that railway line. I absolutely support system is simply not fit for purpose and highlights yet his ambition and look forward to seeing him at the again the chronic lack of investment in the transport Beeching meeting on 4 February.
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