Speeches by Cadbury.

“Thank you, Chair, for letting me guest today. Before we finish this section of questions on data collection, could the DfT not collect the data via the regular MHCLG reporting? MHCLG collects data regularly, so could DfT not ask for data via that route, by attaching reporting requirements to the £1 billion a year you f…”

“I just want to pick up something that I wanted to ask around a subset of the guidance on asset management that you may be providing. How is your approach to local road maintenance supporting your Department’s other priorities? I am thinking particularly of walking and cycling.”

“The Transport Committee in the last Parliament did an inquiry on autonomous vehicles.”

“Evaluating funding measures different techniques and styles, but we all agreed earlier in this session that longer-term funding streams are generally better value for money. Is there a case for finding ways of establishing long-term funding? In a lot of infrastructure—and I know about transport—there is a strong case f…”

“You have just agreed with Michael Payne that, clearly, money has to be well spent. Patching up a pothole only for it to break apart a week or two later, or patching up one pothole and leaving others around about in a dreadful state, is clearly what our constituents see all too regularly, and you agree that it is not sa…”

“That is useful.”

“Having spent 25 years as an elected councillor, I know that providing data is not a burden if it helps you benchmark and is going to help you get resources from various sources for your local authority area. You said that there is a live conversation with MHCLG about this data. Have you asked it to include this data so…”

“As you are developing your outcomes matrix, can we be assured that footways and cycleways have as high a billing as carriageways and, as you have mentioned, bridges?”

“If you do not actually currently have a good understanding of the outcomes that have been delivered from the funding you have provided, how can you discharge your responsibilities as the accounting officer?”

“Dame Bernadette, the Department for Transport funds local authorities for local roads to the tune of about £1 billion a year. Despite the contradictions about how bad our roads, footways and cycleways are, I think that we are all agreed that they are in a terrible state, and our constituents would certainly agree. You …”

“We will come on to that in a moment.”

“The Transport Secretary’s statement is hugely welcome. Bringing privately owned train operating companies into public ownership as well as setting up GBR will inevitably add to her Department’s workload, so what preparations is she making to manage that additional workload?”

“Last month, 18 flights between Belfast City and Heathrow were cancelled, and I can only imagine how difficult that must be for Members from Northern Ireland and their constituents. The previous Transport Committee, in its aviation reform inquiry, recommended that the Government revise the public service obligation rout…”

“As Chair of the Transport Committee, I will focus my remarks on transport, a sector that is essential to delivering the Labour Government’s missions on growth and decarbonisation and to improving our health. On those, the Conservatives dodged the tough decisions and kicked the can down the potholed road. As the Chancel…”

“Under international law, Palestinian refugees retain their right to return. By seeking to dismantle UNRWA, Israel could, as part of a wider plan, be pressurising Palestinian refugees to relinquish that right to return. Despite our Foreign Secretary and Governments of many other countries raising concerns and pleading w…”

“I draw attention to my membership of the GMB. I support this landmark employment Bill, the biggest expansion of workers’ rights for a generation. Today we see the difference that a Labour Government can make for people up and down the country. Although I support all aspects of the Bill, I will focus specifically on the…”

“My constituents rightly want to see more neighbourhood policing teams on their streets. I welcome the Government’s commitment to bringing in 10,000 more neighbourhood police officers, but can the Secretary of State assure me that west London will get the neighbourhood policing teams we need?”

“3. What steps her Department is taking to improve neighbourhood policing.”

“The Government’s bus reforms are welcome, but rural areas such as Cornwall have perhaps the poorest bus services in England, as well as less well developed partnerships than, say, urban Greater Manchester. What plans do the Government have to ensure that rural areas in England can benefit from better bus services, as c…”

“As the Prime Minister so painfully said, the Grenfell fire destroyed lives and ripped families apart, but constituents of mine are suffering, too. They are afraid to go to sleep at night, because they live in buildings that were built more recently than Grenfell, with fire safety risks. The building standards that info…”