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Whole Day Download the Hansard Thursday Volume 607 10 March 2016 No. 130 HOUSE OF COMMONS OFFICIAL REPORT PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES (HANSARD) Thursday 10 March 2016 £5·00 © Parliamentary Copyright House of Commons 2016 This publication may be reproduced under the terms of the Open Parliament licence, which is published at www.parliament.uk/site-information/copyright/. 403 10 MARCH 2016 404 Sir Simon Burns (Chelmsford) (Con): Will my right House of Commons hon. Friend accept that my constituents warmly welcome the investment that is being made in upgrading the A12 Thursday 10 March 2016 to three lanes? Is he in a position to advise me on when he expects phase 1, from the M25 to Margaretting on the southern border of Chelmsford, to commence and The House met at half-past Nine o’clock progress? Mr McLoughlin: I am grateful to my right hon. PRAYERS Friend for making that point. In December 2014, the Government announced a scheme to widen the A12 [MR SPEAKER in the Chair] from junction 28 of the M25 to the Chelmsford bypass. The scheme will be developed in the first roads period from April 2015 to March 2020, to be ready for construction in the next roads period. We expect the next roads Oral Answers to Questions period to run from April 2020 to March 2025. Graham Jones (Hyndburn) (Lab): What assessment TRANSPORT has the Department made of the M66 and the M60 to the south of it? I believe TomTom said that it was one of The Secretary of State was asked— the busiest, or the busiest road in the UK. It is jam-packed from about 6.15 to about 10 am—every morning, it is Road Investment Strategy gridlocked and cars cannot move. What is being done to resolve that situation? 1. Suella Fernandes (Fareham) (Con): What steps his Department is taking to implement its road investment Mr McLoughlin: As I pointed out to the hon. Member strategy. [904015] for Ellesmere Port and Neston (Justin Madders), investment is on a far greater scale than ever imagined by the The Secretary of State for Transport (Mr Patrick Labour party that the hon. Gentleman supported in McLoughlin): Highways England’s delivery plan sets government. It is a simple fact that we are talking about out how it will deliver the Government’s £15 billion £15 billion for the road investment strategy, which is a road investment strategy. Work on site is already under greater investment than we have seen in our roads network way on 19 major schemes, seven of which have started for a number of years. this financial year, as planned. Kit Malthouse (North West Hampshire) (Con): One Suella Fernandes: Chronic congestion causes delays critical part of the road investment strategy is to improve to thousands of commuters on the M27 at junctions 9 safety. On that note, may I ask my right hon. Friend to and 10. With Fareham set to see 6,000 new homes at look at safety, particularly over the last few months, at Welborne and thousands more at North Whiteley, what the junction of the A303 and the A34, where a number steps is my right hon. Friend taking to ensure that vital of accidents have happened recently? In my view, safety upgrades to that piece of infrastructure are carried out could be improved there. as a matter of priority? Mr McLoughlin: I know that particular scheme is of Mr McLoughlin: I am more than happy to ask officials great interest to my hon. Friend. The Department is to look at that and to report back to me. I will write to working together with Highways England and Hampshire my hon. Friend. County Council on a way forward for improvements to junction 9 of the M27. I will ensure that my hon. Friend Daniel Zeichner (Cambridge) (Lab): The road investment is kept fully informed of progress. A separate scheme to strategy is really important, but we know that every improve junction 10 of the M27 is being funded by a journey begins on a local road and that the vast majority private developer and the local enterprise partnership. of journeys are made on local roads. Some of them are It is for them to progress it with the local authority, but in quite a state. Last November, to great fanfare, the I am more than happy to continue to update her on the permanent pothole fund was announced—we hope that matter. means permanent action on potholes, not permanent potholes. How much has been drawn down by councils Justin Madders (Ellesmere Port and Neston) (Lab): from that pothole fund, and how many potholes have As the Secretary of State will know, junctions 12 to 14 been filled in so far? of the M56 have seen a significant increase in accidents in recent years, and there is an urgent need for some Mr McLoughlin: The hon. Gentleman wants devolution, form of managed motorway there. Does he share my but he also wants the Government to tell local authorities disappointment that the northern transport strategy exactly what to do in every set of circumstances. The published this week by his Department makes no mention simple fact is that, for the period 2015 and 2020, £6 billion of that at all? When will his Department take action? has been allocated to local authorities for road maintenance. Between 2010 and 2015, the figure was £4 billion. Mr McLoughlin: I will certainly look at the specific Between 2005 and 2010, the amount allocated to local point that the hon. Gentleman has raised, but the fact is authorities was £3 billion. That shows the significant that we have a road investment strategy far superior to increase in the amount that this Government are giving anything that existed before 2010. I would have thought for local road maintenance, and I would have thought that he would have welcomed that. that he would welcome that. 405 Oral Answers10 MARCH 2016 Oral Answers 406 Sir Alan Haselhurst (Saffron Walden) (Con): Will my 18. [904034] Rebecca Harris (Castle Point) (Con): My right hon. Friend acknowledge the urgent need for hon. Friend will be aware of the absurd situation on clarity about the capacity of junction 8 of the M11 Canvey where, although residents can virtually kick a motorway and the possibility of there being a junction 7A, football at the new DP World container port, it is easier as these matters have a bearing on decisions having to to access the tens of thousands of jobs there by travelling be made against a deadline by local authorities on their from the east end of London. What support can he give local plans? my residents on Canvey Island who have been campaigning for a third road for many decades? Mr McLoughlin: I am grateful to my right hon. Friend for raising that particular case with me. I will Mr Goodwill: I very much agree that new road certainly write to him to tell him what progress is being infrastructure can transform local economies and boost made in that exact location. access to jobs, which is why we have given significant funding and freedoms to local areas to take forward Local Transport Projects (Funding) schemes such as this. We will be announcing further funding opportunities very soon. I hope that my hon. Friend will continue to make the case for that project 2. Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough) (Con): What with Essex County Council and the South East local steps he is taking to provide funding for large local enterprise partnership. The port facilities in her constituency transport projects. [904016] are absolutely superb, and it is important that we give them the infrastructure that they need to back them up. The Minister of State, Department for Transport (Mr Robert Goodwill): The Department is providing Drew Hendry (Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and over £7 billion for the devolved local growth fund, Strathspey) (SNP): Large local infrastructure projects which will fund more than 500 local transport projects have been the hallmark of the Scottish Government by the end of this Parliament. It now includes £475 million since they came to power in 2007. There have been too for transformational local transport schemes that are many to list here, but they include the Borders rail link, too large for the devolved allocations. We will be providing the Tarbert to Campbelltown trunk link road and, in further details very soon. my own constituency, the dualling of the A9 between Perth and Inverness. According to independent analysis, Mr Jackson: May I make a plea to the Minister? Will Scotland is investing twice as much per person in transport he tell me when some of the £75 million funding from as England. That includes active travel projects such as the roads investment strategy will be used to reduce the cycling, on which we are already way ahead of the UK. noise pollution that has already been identified by Last year, this Government announced a new £680 million Highways England on the A47 Soke Parkway through access fund up to 2021. Can they clear up the confusion Peterborough, adjacent to Apsley Way and Bradwell about when that fund is going to go ahead? Road? Mr Goodwill: It is interesting that the hon. Gentleman Mr Goodwill: The A47 is part of the strategic road did not mention the high-speed rail line between Edinburgh network and is therefore not covered by the money that and Glasgow, which has been conveniently shelved. He I have just announced. However, in November 2014, the may be aware that SNP-controlled Perth and Kinross Chancellor announced £300 million for the A47, including Council has decided that potholes now have to be at the Wansford to Sutton section between the A1 and least 60 mm deep—that is nearly 2 and a half inches—before Peterborough.
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